Question

I am trying to create a floating ticker for my customer websites which will display their activity details, and am planning to expose this as an embedded code for them to use.

I have three questions:

1. What is this technically called so that I can do more research on this
2. What is the best practice to create a floating table or div section: Ex:springSource.org: has a search bar which floats on their webpage and has some animation
3. How can I uniquely identify each website request from my embed code so that I pass the relevant information back

Thanks in advance for your time and help. Will appreciate any questions/comments.

Technologies used: Spring, JSP (Am open to use other UI technologies like jQuery, CSS3, HTML5 etc.,)

Answer 1

To display the fixed search bar at the bottom of the page, you can use for example:

#search_bar {
    z-index: 10;
    position: fixed !important;
    bottom: 0px;
    left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 36px;
}

If you want your users to be able to embbed some kind of widget on their site, they’ll have to embbed an iframe:

<iframe src="//www.yourwebsite.com/some_page?params=...></iframe