Please take note:
Not all conditions are applicable to every type of control.
Be sure to test to make sure you get the desired result.
Sometimes text animation effects behave differently depending
on what is before or after them. For example, your text
will fade In if it is not already visible, or remain unchanged
if already visible (in preview mode it will always 'fade
in' when text starts).
When inputting HTML, it's best to use SPANS and STYLES
(more info below)instead of <P>, tables, and the "older"
HTML tags. This is because of the way newer browsers work
with Dynamic HTML layers. As such, much is dependent on
what browsers your visitors are using and will eventually
see. For line breaks, use <BR> instead of </P>.
The old HTML 1.0 way of bolding some text, for example,
is the following:
<B>Some Text</B>
or
<STRONG>Some Text</STRONG>
With SPAN and styles, it looks like this:
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Some Text</span>
However, I think you'll find this animator works well on
just about any modern browser platform.
If you expect to see a fade in/out, and the content just
appears or disappears,it's almost always due to older "traditional"
HTML tags in there. (This is purely a browser issue.)
The good news is, most newer html software now use styles
and spans almost exclusively, so simply copying the HTML
source your editor makes for you and pasting it in this
animator will work just fine.
To see an effect transition occur (i.e. fade in/out, etc.)
other than the single frame preview (i.e. on the final preview
or ultimately on your website), you'll need to create more
than one frame. If you want it to fade out, for example,
just create another frame and leave the HTML field empty.
Set the duration for a second or 2.
Some effects don't work well in IE, so test them on both
Firefox and IE. For example, IE doesn't like Shrink, so
if you use that effect, IE users will not see the Shrink
effect but will see a Fade-In effect instead (this animator
handles this automatically for you). On Firefox your visitors
will see the Shrink effect. |