hide a layer

[bensheard]

Hi
This is probably quite simple if possible, but im quite new so if someone could tell me how you can hide an Internet Explorer layer?
Thanks

[Pepejeria]

There is nothing called "internet explorer layer". There are HTML element you can hide though, that you by changing its visibility property

[bensheard]

OK, thanks. But can you help me here...

<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" height="17">
  <tr>
    <td width="20%" onmouseover="show1()" height="17">Heading 1</td>
    <td width="20%" height="17">Heading 2</td>
    <td width="20%" height="17">Heading 3</td>
    <td width="20%" height="17">Heading 4</td>
    <td width="20%" height="17"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<script type = "text/javascript">
 <!--
 function show1(){
  document.write("<div id = 'layer1' style = ' position:absolute; top:40; left:20; width:150; height:80; background-color:silver; z-index:10 ' >Option 1Option 2</div>");
 }
//-->
</script>

This half works, except everything else on the page disappears when this layer appears. And after it appears, how can I get it to disappear???
Thanks

[felgall]

When you use document.write after the page finishes loading you overwrite the entire page with new content. The first step is to change your code so that it updates the current page instead of creating a whole new one.

You need to learn about the Document Object Model (DOM) to do this. A couple of methods you might want to read up on are getElementById() and innerHTML.