What is a document layer?

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I am finding many sites on the Internet with tutorials on manipulating document layers, however when I search on what it is I'm having no luck. So if someone could give me an explanation and perhaps a link to a further explanation if they know of one I would greatly appreciate it.

timjpriebe's picture

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If you're talking about HTML/CSS, you may be referring to a Z-index. There's some info here: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Understanding_CSS_z-index

However, different graphics file formats and graphics editors have layer information as well. So I'm not really sure what you're referring to.

More info, please.

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Might you be talking about document.layer? That's an old JavaScript construct, really forget about it as it was proprietory to Netscape.

I presume you're searching in Google? What search terms are you using?

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