[Mapserver-users] HTML Legends as lists

[Stephen Clark]

Liz,

this may not be exactly what you want but if you want a tree to display the
layers that is collapsible have a look at:

http://www.microsoft.com/mind/0799/htmltree/htmltree.asp

Stephen


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liz Godwin" <godwinl at agr.gc.ca>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:16 PM
Subject: [Mapserver-users] HTML Legends as lists


> Hello all!
>
> I've been looking into making a collapsable legend.
> I have groups of layers, each of which have detailed class
> information.
>
> Now.. I can make an HTML legend work just fine.  It's the collapsing
> that's tricky.
>
> Currently the HTML legend works that only the code between the
> repeating sections is used, and only certain tags are available within
> repeating sections.  These two things are preventing me from making this
> an easy solution.
>
> I'd like to be able to create a heirachical list such that my group
> knows that it's children are it's layers with the same group, and the
> layers know which classes are their own.  The way to do this would be to
> add <ul> tags around my layers and classes.  BUT I can't.
>
> An alternative (but to me merely a temp. workaround) to this would be
> to give an identifier to each layer and class that of it's parent so
> that it could be found using some javascript, but alas, my group info
> isn't available to my layer in the HTML template file.
>
> Oh Mapserver Gurus...please tell me this would be something simple to
> implement.  I think a lot of other people would be interested in this.
> Lists are quickly becomming a popular display method in web pages
> instead of tables.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Liz Godwin
>
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