technique name required please

[the_jetsetwilly]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/default.stm

right hand side STANDINGS RESULTS

whats the technique called to hide the data behind the link and not have the whole page reload?

looking at the source its some javascript magic

thanks

 

[Teaf]

Doubt it has an official name, but something along the lines of Dynamic JavaScript Tabs. You can find a free script and example here. Basically just involves some fancy JavaScript and a bunch of <div> tags to hold your content.

 

[the_jetsetwilly]

awesome, thanks fibby thats exactly what im after.

first time i've ventured into this bit of the forum.

thanks again for your time.

 

[denyerec]

If the data is already on the page but hidden, it's just "DOM Manipulation" achieved with one of many freely available libraries like MooTools, jQuery, or even the BBC's own library that they released recently called Glow. You're basically using JS to hide and show stuff.

If it's fetching the data from elsewhere when you click it, that's often referred to as "AJAX".

 

[rz30]

Probaly just hiding divs with js, something like,

document.getElementById('divname').style.visibility = 'visible';
document.getElementById('divname').style.visibility = 'hidden';

 

[Tripnologist]

I didn't know the BBC was working on a js library. What a complete waste of taxpayer money.


I'd use a jquery solution myself. (love jquery)
http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/

 

[z3b3dy]

I didn't know the BBC was working on a js library. What a complete waste of taxpayer money.


I'd use a jquery solution myself. (love jquery)
http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/

You can read their reasons for making it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow/docs/articles/what_is_glow.shtml. Given the amount of data they must transfer every day and the variety of browsers they have to support I suppose it makes sense.

 

[Tripnologist]

Ahh, true. I guess if they need to support archaic browsers, there is nothing out there currently.