asp page widgets

[scottyman]

... or whatever they may be called

i seem to remember reading in one of the magazines I've been forced to throw out recently - that asp provides groovy ways of creating "floating panels" which can be positioned wherever the user wants within their page. this layout is stored in a session variable, which is cool - but I'd just like to find out more about it.

Does anyone have any ideas on where it was published - or if there's any information about it on the net?
I'm fairly sure they're not called widgets - am may be fairly esoteric - hence the fact I'm not finding anything on devshed or google!

scotty

[yamangman]

This can be acheived very easily in Javascript as well as CSS, actually it can be acheived in it's simplest with the <DIV> tag. Unless you want to use ASP purposefully for whatever reason?

[scottyman]

actually like sharepoint - I've already done it in CSS, but to have a floating search window which you can move around if it gets in the way of your search results, or hiding/moving a comments pane until you actually want to use it... that kind of stuff.
The advantage is that they're independant entities much like IFRAMES but without the inherent evil!

[yamangman]

Sorry I didn't read 'wherever the user wants within their page'

[yamangman]

I know it's not the kind of thing you mean, but you could use somthing like this and then just use show if behaviors for dynamic content.

[scottyman]

yes - true... it's something to play with at least! thanks for that - quite nifty.
i wonder how well that floats over iframes - will have to fiddle! cheers!

[yamangman]

Here is one that works in Firefox amongst other browsers: dragger

It's from a site I made a while back in dreamweaver. You can apply many other properties to the drag layer behavior in DW, such as constrain it's area of movement, supply a drop target, snap to drop target, as well as calling other js whilst being dragged and dropped.

[scottyman]

that's nifty - me likes - will have to fiddle with it and see if I can make it work with thesite I'm mocking up. it's really just a case of playing about for me until I can get a job again