The Hacking Shtick - Page Transitions (Internet Explorer only)

Microsofts Internet Explorer has a neat little feature where, if you put the right Meta tag in your page head, you can create transition effect when users enter your page. One would imagine this feature was created in order to make PowerPoint presentations convert more fluidly to HTML.

Transitions can be set either for when a page is loaded or unloaded. The tags for these transitions are respectively:

<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" CONTENT="RevealTrans(Duration=4,Transition=23)">
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" CONTENT="RevealTrans(Duration=4,Transition=23)">

As with all Meta tags these tags would be placed between the <HEAD> tags of your document. The duration is given in seconds and the meanings of the different values for the transition are given below:

Transition
Number Description

0 Old page closes in box towards center of screen.

1 New page opens as box from center of screen.

2 Old page closes in circle towards center of screen.

3 New page opens as circle from center of screen.

4 New page rolled in from bottom.

5 New page rolled in from top.

6 New page rolled in from left.

7 New page rolled in from right.

8 Vertical blinds. (Left to Right)

9 Horizontal blinds. (Top to Bottom)

10 Checkered slide. (Left to Right)

11 Checkered slide. (Top to Bottom)

12 Random pixel fade.

13 New page rolled in from left and right.

14 Old page rolled out to left and right.

15 New page rolled in from top and bottom.

16 Old page rolled out to top and bottom.

17 New page rolled in from top right corner.

18 New page rolled in from bottom right corner.

19 New page rolled in from top left corner.

20 New page rolled in from bottom left corner.

21 Random horizontal line fade.

22 Random vertical line fade.

23+ Grab-bag transition. (Randomly selects one of the above.)