LAYER Description:
The LAYER tag creates layered content. This tag is a Netscape specific tag. This tag is deprecated and is no longer supported by any browser other than Netscape. I recommend that you use z-index to create layers of content using CSS.
LAYER Web Browser Support:
- Netscape 3, 4
LAYER Attributes:
LAYER End Tag:
LAYER Contents:
CDATA. HTML text. The following tags are valid within the LAYER tag:
a,
abbr,
acronym,
address,
applet,
b,
basefont,
bdo,
big,
blockquote,
br,
button,
center,
cite,
code,
dfn,
dir,
div,
dl,
em,
fieldset,
font,
form,
h1,
h2,
h3,
h4,
h5,
h6,
hr,
i,
iframe,
img,
input,
isindex,
kbd,
label,
map,
menu,
noframes,
noscript,
object,
ol,
p,
pre,
q,
s,
samp,
script,
select,
small,
span,
strike,
strong,
sub,
sup,
table,
textarea,
tt,
u,
ul,
var
LAYER Valid Context:
The LAYER tag is valid within the following tags:
blockquote,
body,
center,
dd,
div,
fieldset,
iframe,
li,
noframes,
noscript,
object,
td,
th,
LAYER Usage:
Typical layer
<layer width="150" bgcolor="#3399ff" height="10" left="200">
a standard Netscape layer
</layer>
LAYER Special Notes:
- This element is not a part of the XHTML 1 or HTML 4.0 specifications, and should be avoided if at all possible.
- This tag has been deprecated in Netscape 6+ in favor of the CSS property z-index.
- If you use this element, be sure to include alternative text within the element to degrade for non-layers compliant browsers. Even better is to use object detection to display the layer only on layers compliant browsers.
- Name your layers if you want to manipulate them with JavaScript.
