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Slide open layer on page.

I have a page that I am trying to slide open a layer onthe page. I have pulled some code and am very close, but need some help. The remaining isseues are:

1) when the layer becomes visible, I want the copy on the page to move below it. I think this is just chaning the z-index.
2) I would like the layer to open when the page loads. I can not put this in the BODY tag and tried to open another <script> tag, but could not get it to work.

Thanks for any help.

<html>
<head>
      <script language="javascript" src="../ypSlideOutMenus.js"></script>
      <script language="javascript">
            new ypSlideOutMenu("menu1", "down", 20, 20, 500, 200)

ypSlideOutMenu.writeCSS();

      </script>

      <style type="text/css">
            /* just basic text formatting - nothing special */
            @import "/_common/demo.css";

            .menuActuator a {
                  color:#666666;
                  font-weight:bold;
                  font-size:12px;
                  font-family:arial;
            }

            .menu {
                  font-family:verdana;
                  color:#666666;
                  font-size:10px;
                  background-color:#cccccc;
                  layer-background-color:#cccccc;
            }
      </style>
</head>

<body leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 bgcolor="white">
      <table bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width="450" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0">
      <tr>
            <td width="50" align="center" class="menuActuator"><a href="#" onmouseover="ypSlideOutMenu.showMenu('menu1');">menu1</a></td>
            <td width="200" align="left" class="menuActuator"><a href="#" onmouseover="ypSlideOutMenu.hideAll()">hide 'em all</a></td>
            <td width="100"> </td>
      </tr>
      </table>

      <div id="menu1Container">
            <div id="menu1Content"><table border="0" width="500" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFF66">
      <tr>
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      </tr>
</table></div>
      </div>
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<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">

</script>

INCLUDED JS FIle

/*****************************************************
* ypSlideOutMenu
* http://ypslideoutmenus.sourceforge.net/
* 3/04/2001
*
* a nice little script to create exclusive, slide-out
* menus for ns4, ns6, mozilla, opera, ie4, ie5 on
* mac and win32. I've got no linux or unix to test on but
* it should(?) work...
*
* Licensed under AFL 2.0
* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/afl-2.0.php
*
* Revised:
* - 08/29/2002 : added .hideAll()
* - 04/15/2004 : added .writeCSS() to support more
* than 30 menus.
*
* --youngpup--
*****************************************************/

ypSlideOutMenu.Registry = []
ypSlideOutMenu.aniLen = 250
ypSlideOutMenu.hideDelay = 1000
ypSlideOutMenu.minCPUResolution = 10

// constructor
function ypSlideOutMenu(id, dir, left, top, width, height)
{
      this.ie = document.all ? 1 : 0
      this.ns4 = document.layers ? 1 : 0
      this.dom = document.getElementById ? 1 : 0
      this.css = "";

      if (this.ie || this.ns4 || this.dom) {
            this.id                   = id
            this.dir             = dir
            this.orientation = dir == "left" || dir == "right" ? "h" : "v"
            this.dirType       = dir == "right" || dir == "down" ? "-" : "+"
            this.dim             = this.orientation == "h" ? width : height
            this.hideTimer       = false
            this.aniTimer       = false
            this.open             = false
            this.over             = false
            this.startTime       = 0

            // global reference to this object
            this.gRef = "ypSlideOutMenu_"+id
            eval(this.gRef+"=this")

            // add this menu object to an internal list of all menus
            ypSlideOutMenu.Registry[id] = this

            var d = document

            var strCSS = "";
            strCSS += '#' + this.id + 'Container { visibility:hidden; '
            strCSS += 'left:' + left + 'px; '
            strCSS += 'top:' + top + 'px; '
            strCSS += 'overflow:hidden; z-index:10000; }'
            strCSS += '#' + this.id + 'Container, #' + this.id + 'Content { position:absolute; '
            strCSS += 'width:' + width + 'px; '
            strCSS += 'height:' + height + 'px; '
            strCSS += 'clip:rect(0 ' + width + ' ' + height + ' 0); '
            strCSS += '}'

            this.css = strCSS;

            this.load()
      }
}

ypSlideOutMenu.writeCSS = function() {
      document.writeln('<style type="text/css">');

      for (var id in ypSlideOutMenu.Registry) {
            document.writeln(ypSlideOutMenu.Registry[id].css);
      }

      document.writeln('</style>');
}

ypSlideOutMenu.prototype.load = function() {
      var d = document
      var lyrId1 = this.id + "Container"
      var lyrId2 = this.id + "Content"
      var obj1 = this.dom ? d.getElementById(lyrId1) : this.ie ? d.all[lyrId1] : d.layers[lyrId1]
      if (obj1) var obj2 = this.ns4 ? obj1.layers[lyrId2] : this.ie ? d.all[lyrId2] : d.getElementById(lyrId2)
      var temp

      if (!obj1 || !obj2) window.setTimeout(this.gRef + ".load()", 100)
      else {
            this.container      = obj1
            this.menu            = obj2
            this.style            = this.ns4 ? this.menu : this.menu.style
            this.homePos      = eval("0" + this.dirType + this.dim)
            this.outPos            = 0
            this.accelConst      = (this.outPos - this.homePos) / ypSlideOutMenu.aniLen / ypSlideOutMenu.aniLen

            // set event handlers.
            if (this.ns4) this.menu.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEOVER | Event.MOUSEOUT);
            this.menu.onmouseover = new Function("ypSlideOutMenu.showMenu('" + this.id + "')")
            this.menu.onmouseout = new Function("ypSlideOutMenu.hideMenu('" + this.id + "')")

            //set initial state
            this.endSlide()
      }
}

ypSlideOutMenu.showMenu = function(id)
{
      var reg = ypSlideOutMenu.Registry
      var obj = ypSlideOutMenu.Registry[id]

      if (obj.container) {
            obj.over = true

            // close other menus.
            for (menu in reg) if (id != menu) ypSlideOutMenu.hide(menu)

            // if this menu is scheduled to close, cancel it.
            if (obj.hideTimer) { reg[id].hideTimer = window.clearTimeout(reg[id].hideTimer) }

            // if this menu is closed, open it.
            if (!obj.open && !obj.aniTimer) reg[id].startSlide(true)
      }
}

ypSlideOutMenu.hideMenu = function(id)
{
      // schedules the menu to close after <hideDelay> ms, which
      // gives the user time to cancel the action if they accidentally moused out
      var obj = ypSlideOutMenu.Registry[id]
      if (obj.container) {
            if (obj.hideTimer) window.clearTimeout(obj.hideTimer)
            obj.hideTimer = window.setTimeout("ypSlideOutMenu.hide('" + id + "')", ypSlideOutMenu.hideDelay);
      }
}

ypSlideOutMenu.hideAll = function()
{
      var reg = ypSlideOutMenu.Registry
      for (menu in reg) {
            ypSlideOutMenu.hide(menu);
            if (menu.hideTimer) window.clearTimeout(menu.hideTimer);
      }
}

ypSlideOutMenu.hide = function(id)
{
      var obj = ypSlideOutMenu.Registry[id]
      obj.over = false

      if (obj.hideTimer) window.clearTimeout(obj.hideTimer)

      // flag that this scheduled event has occured.
      obj.hideTimer = 0

      // if this menu is open, close it.
      if (obj.open && !obj.aniTimer) obj.startSlide(false)
}

ypSlideOutMenu.prototype.startSlide = function(open) {
      this[open ? "onactivate" : "ondeactivate"]()
      this.open = open
      if (open) this.setVisibility(true)
      this.startTime = (new Date()).getTime()
      this.aniTimer = window.setInterval(this.gRef + ".slide()", ypSlideOutMenu.minCPUResolution)
}

ypSlideOutMenu.prototype.slide = function() {
      var elapsed = (new Date()).getTime() - this.startTime
      if (elapsed > ypSlideOutMenu.aniLen) this.endSlide()
      else {
            var d = Math.round(Math.pow(ypSlideOutMenu.aniLen-elapsed, 2) * this.accelConst)
            if (this.open && this.dirType == "-")            d = -d
            else if (this.open && this.dirType == "+")      d = -d
            else if (!this.open && this.dirType == "-")      d = -this.dim + d
            else                                                            d = this.dim + d

            this.moveTo(d)
      }
}

ypSlideOutMenu.prototype.endSlide = function() {
      this.aniTimer = window.clearTimeout(this.aniTimer)
      this.moveTo(this.open ? this.outPos : this.homePos)
      if (!this.open) this.setVisibility(false)
      if ((this.open && !this.over) || (!this.open && this.over)) {
            this.startSlide(this.over)
      }
}

ypSlideOutMenu.prototype.setVisibility = function(bShow) {
      var s = this.ns4 ? this.container : this.container.style
      s.visibility = bShow ? "visible" : "hidden"
}
ypSlideOutMenu.prototype.moveTo = function(p) {
      this.style[this.orientation == "h" ? "left" : "top"] = this.ns4 ? p : p + "px"
}
ypSlideOutMenu.prototype.getPos = function(c) {
      return parseInt(this.style[c])
}

// events
ypSlideOutMenu.prototype.onactivate            = function() { }
ypSlideOutMenu.prototype.ondeactivate      = function() { }

</body>

</html>

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td234

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I figured this out using a different script. Thanks anyway.