Need to clear bottom nav layer when higher layers become visible

[crispy]

On this page:
http://www.saneplanet.com/clients/nomadic/draft/legacy.htm

I have a bottom navigation layer called "buttnav" that sits o nthe
bottom of the page.

But when any of the links under the images are clicked, large layers
appear that cover the buttnav layer. Is there a way to use CSS or
other means to tell the buttnav layer to move down when a layer
appears, so that it always remains visible?

Thank you in advance, crispy

 

[Eric Bohlman]

On this page:
http://www.saneplanet.com/clients/nomadic/draft/legacy.htm

I have a bottom navigation layer called "buttnav" that sits o nthe
bottom of the page.

But when any of the links under the images are clicked, large layers
appear that cover the buttnav layer. Is there a way to use CSS or
other means to tell the buttnav layer to move down when a layer
appears, so that it always remains visible?

The specific problem I see (using MSIE6/Win and Opera 7.22/Win) is that
sometimes there's a "ghost" of the previous descriptive text. I suspect
the problem is in your Javascript, but upon viewing source I saw that your
code congealed into a big blob that I didn't feel like trying to read.
Some formating of the code for readability would help.

I note that the navigation for the links under the images is Javascript-
dependent, which is a Bad Thing; you need to provide some sort of fallback
if Javascript is disabled (e.g. having the links go to a descriptive page).

 

[rf]

On this page:
http://www.saneplanet.com/clients/nomadic/draft/legacy.htm

I have a bottom navigation layer called "buttnav" that sits o nthe
bottom of the page.

But when any of the links under the images are clicked, large layers

Layers? You mean absolutely positioned divs surely.

appear that cover the buttnav layer. Is there a way to use CSS or
other means to tell the buttnav layer to move down when a layer
appears, so that it always remains visible?

No. Not with all that absolutely positioned stuff. You would have to do it
yourself, that is when you make a layer visible move the navbar to the
correct position, which will not work because you don't know how long your
newly visible div is because you don't know how big your viewers font is.

Put the nave bar at the top?

Cheers
Richard.