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    Default Popup box on homepage with close feature! Not a normal popup box!

    Hello,

    I'm needing help with this and would appreciate the powers to be to offer their insight. Does Xara yet have a feature to make this simple? I would like (or my client would like) an info box to be right in the center of the home page with a text promotion that can be closed after reading! That's it. It can or doesn't have to be animated i.e. fade in, etc., it can just be there as soon as a person arrives to the site, but it needs to be closed after reading. It might not even be named a "popup" box, because it really doesn't need to popup per se.

    I had a problem, years ago with a site with a similar request. It was a Performing Arts Academy website I created and they wanted an Inclimate Weather Closure Alert to be in the center of their home page. I never figured it out.

    IMPORTANT: I don't want a typical popup box where you have to click something to make the box appear. I know how to do that and did that for the site I described above. I want the info box to already be there, front and center, bright and bold, but then to be able to click to close it/remove it from sight after reading the info it contains! Hopefully this makes sense.

    Is this possible? Please help!

    Thank you in advance,
    Tazz

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    Info Re: Popup box on homepage with close feature! Not a normal popup box!

    Tazz, I did this a time back: Fancy OnLoad Pop-up.xar.

    The method is fairly simple but has five necessary parts to work: layer, Named item on layer, link to layer, code for loading & popup close.

    Here is a cleaner example: Simple OnLoad Popup.xar. The description is here: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...619#post499619.

    The centring is another matter. i think I have done this too but get this one working first.

    Acorn
    Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
    When we provide assistance, your responses are valuable as they benefit the community. TG Nuggets you might like. Report faults: Xara Cloud+/Pro+/Magix Legacy; Xara KB & Chat

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    Default Re: Popup box on homepage with close feature! Not a normal popup box!

    Quote Originally Posted by Acorn View Post
    Tazz, I did this a time back: Fancy OnLoad Pop-up.xar.

    The method is fairly simple but has five necessary parts to work: layer, Named item on layer, link to layer, code for loading & popup close.

    Here is a cleaner example: Simple OnLoad Popup.xar. The description is here: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...619#post499619.

    The centring is another matter. i think I have done this too but get this one working first.

    Acorn
    Acorn thanks for the response and samples...it was PERFECT!!! Except for, I can only get the "banner" to appear once I click the small "link to layer" that I created. Then I click and it closes perfectly. Just like I want...but, I want it to be there when you get to the page. Your sample works exactly how I am trying to get mine to work but apparently I'm missing something. I have a feeling it's in the code to body somehow, but I added that to the body of the page web properties.

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    Default Re: Popup box on homepage with close feature! Not a normal popup box!

    Acorn, wow I got it!!! I named the item on the banner layer with an uppercase "B"...I recreated it with a lowercase "b" and that did it. That's crazy. Something so minor can have such a major affect!

    Thank you again...NOW it works exactly the way I wanted it too!

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    Default Re: Popup box on homepage with close feature! Not a normal popup box!

    Quote Originally Posted by Tazz View Post
    Acorn, wow I got it!!! I named the item on the banner layer with an uppercase "B"...I recreated it with a lowercase "b" and that did it. That's crazy. Something so minor can have such a major affect!
    Thank you again...NOW it works exactly the way I wanted it too!
    Great Tazz, we now have two that do!

    Acorn
    Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
    When we provide assistance, your responses are valuable as they benefit the community. TG Nuggets you might like. Report faults: Xara Cloud+/Pro+/Magix Legacy; Xara KB & Chat

 

 

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