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The DHTML Lab Jigsaw Puzzle, Part I: IE4
defining the CSS elements

Our puzzle has three unique positioned elements. The puzzle element is the most important as it contains the others. It is, therefore our parent element. We define it in our in-page style sheet:

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--
    #elPuzzle {
        position: absolute;
        left: 0; top: 0;
        width: 100;
        border: 3px black solid;
        visibility: hidden;
    }
-->
</STYLE>

The left and top properties above are placeholders. Set them to whatever coordinates you want the puzzle to appear in your page. The width property is set to any value. It is required by IE4, but will be modified later when our image is loaded. Our visibility is set to hidden to allow our puzzle to fully load before the user sees it. The border property can also be modified to any that you prefer. If a border is used, remember that a border is appended to an element's boundaries. It is not contained within them. Thus, in the above example, our element would be 106 pixels wide on the page:

left border width + elPuzzle width + right border width = total width
        3         +       100      +          3         = 106

Within our puzzle element, we will be placing:

• the puzzle image,
• the background grid, and
• the control panel.

#elGrid {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0; top: 0;
    visibility: hidden;
}

The third element, the control panel, is also nested within elPuzzle, but it appears after the puzzle image. The control panel must be part of the HTML flow, and always appear below our image. Our puzzle images are all different sizes, so our controls should adjust position with each new image. This element, therefore, has a position value of relative:

#elControls {
    position: relative;
    background-color: #EEEEEE;
    text-align: center;
    border-top: 1px red solid;
    padding: 5px;
    height: 40;
}

We have added some CSS formatting to our panel for better display. The padding property will give us some minimum space around the control panel HTML. A <BR> tag would give us too much space. The height property is, like width in elPuzzle, required for our element to format properly and is given a placeholder minimum value.

We can now place the elements in our HTML.

<DIV ID="elPuzzle">
    <DIV ID="elGrid"></DIV>     // these two elements are
    <DIV ID="elControls"></DIV> // nested in elPuzzle parent
</DIV>

The next step is to flesh out the HTML.

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