November 19, 2001
SPAN tags revisited
Did you know that if you give SPAN elements positioning with CSS, NS4.x treats them like layers? If you do something like this:
This is a <span id="mySpan" style="position:relative">test</span>
<script type="text/javascript">
alert(”layers: ” + document.layers.length);
</script>
…the resulting alert message should read:
layers: 1
Something new (but not necessarily useful) every day.








