function maketable(n) {
                                      var nb;
                                      this.length = n;
                                      for (var i = 1; i <=n; i++)
                                        if (i<10) {
                                          nb = i+"";
                                          nb = nb.substring(0,1);   	
                                          this[i] = nb;
                                        }
                                      return this;
                                    }
                                    
                                    function conversion(color) {
                                      var hexa1;
                                      var hexa2;
                                      var colorHexa;
                                      tabHex = new maketable(16);
                                    
                                      tabHex[10]="A"; tabHex[11]="B"; tabHex[12]="C"; tabHex[13]="D"; tabHex[14]="E"; tabHex[15]="F";
                                      hexa2 = (color%16);
                                      hexa1 = parseInt(color/16);
                                      hexa2 = tabHex[hexa2];
                                      if (hexa2 == null)
                                        hexa2 = "0";
                                      hexa1 = tabHex[hexa1];
                                      if (hexa1 == null)
                                        hexa1 = "0";
                                      colorHexa = hexa1 + hexa2;
                                      return colorHexa;
                                    }
                                    
                                    function degrade(texte, taille, police, RGB) {
                                      var factor = 256/(texte.length+1);
                                      var i;
                                      var c1,c2,c3;
                                    
                                      for (i=0;i<texte.length;i++)   {
                                        ton=factor*i;
                                        if (RGB == 0) {
                                          c1 = 'FF';
                                          c2 = conversion(ton);
                                          c3 = c2;
                                        }
                                        else if (RGB == 1) {
                                          c1 = conversion(ton);
                                          c2 = 'FF';
                                          c3 = c1;
                                        }
                                        else {
                                          c1 = conversion(ton);
                                          c2 = c1;
                                          c3 = 'FF';
                                        }
                                       document.write ('<FONT SIZE=' + taille + ' FACE="' + police + '" COLOR="#' + c1 + c2 + c3 + '">' + texte.substring (i,i+1) + '</FONT>');
                                      } 
                                    }

/*************************

Cross Browser Gradient Backgrounds
v1.0
Last Revision: 11.03.2005
steve@slayeroffice.com

please leave this notice in tact.

should you improve upon this code, please
let me know so that I may update the version
hosted on slayeroffice

--- to use --
reference this file (on your own server) as a javascript src
in the head of your document. give the elements
you want a gradient background applied to a class as such:

class="gradient 000000 ffffff horizontal"

See http://slayeroffice.com/code/gradient/ for more examples.


*************************/
/*
window.addEventListener?window.addEventListener("load",createGradient,false):window.attachEvent("onload",createGradient);

function createGradient() {
	if(!document.getElementById)return;
	
	objArray = getGradientObjects();
	if(!objArray.length) return;
	
	for(i=0;i&lt;objArray.length;i++) {
		params = objArray[i].className.split(" ");
		if(document.all &amp;&amp; !window.opera) {
			objArray[i].style.width = objArray[i].offsetWidth + "px";
			params[3] == "horizontal"?gType = 1:gType = 0;
			objArray[i].style.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(GradientType="+gType+",StartColorStr=\"#" + params[1] + "\",EndColorStr=\"#" + params[2] + "\")";
	} else {
			colorArray = createColorPath(params[1],params[2]);
			x=0;y=0;
			if(params[3] == "horizontal") {
				w=Math.round(objArray[i].offsetWidth/colorArray.length);
				if(!w)w=1;
				h = objArray[i].offsetHeight;
			} else {
				h = Math.round(objArray[i].offsetHeight/colorArray.length);
				if(!h) h =1;
				w = objArray[i].offsetWidth;
			}
			makeGrandParent(objArray[i]);
			tmpDOM = document.createDocumentFragment();
			for(p=0;p&lt;colorArray.length;p++) {
				g = document.createElement("div");
				g.setAttribute("style","position:absolute;z-index:0;top:" + y + "px;left:" + x + "px;height:" + h + "px;width:" + w + "px;background-color:rgb(" + colorArray[p][0] + "," + colorArray[p][1] + "," + colorArray[p][2] + ");");
				params[3] == "horizontal"?x+=w:y+=h;
				tmpDOM.appendChild(g);
				if(y&gt;=objArray[i].offsetHeight || x &gt;= objArray[i].offsetWidth) break;
			}
			objArray[i].appendChild(tmpDOM);
			tmpDOM = null;
		}
	}
}

function getGradientObjects() {
	a = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
	objs = new Array();
	for(i=0;i&lt;a.length;i++) {
		c = a[i].className;
		if(c != "") if(c.indexOf("gradient") == 0) objs[objs.length] = a[i];
	} 
	return objs;
}
	
function createColorPath(color1,color2) {
	colorPath = new Array();
	colorPercent = 1.0;
	do {
		colorPath[colorPath.length]=setColorHue(longHexToDec(color1),colorPercent,longHexToDec(color2));
		colorPercent-=.01;
	} while(colorPercent&gt;0);
	return colorPath;
}
		
function setColorHue(originColor,opacityPercent,maskRGB) {
	returnColor=new Array();
	for(w=0;w&lt;originColor.length;w++) returnColor[w] = Math.round(originColor[w]*opacityPercent) + Math.round(maskRGB[w]*(1.0-opacityPercent));
	return returnColor;
}

function longHexToDec(longHex) {
	return new Array(toDec(longHex.substring(0,2)),toDec(longHex.substring(2,4)),toDec(longHex.substring(4,6)));	
}

function toDec(hex) {	
	return parseInt(hex,16);
}
	
function makeGrandParent(obj) {
	disp = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(obj,'').display;
	disp == "block"?nSpan = document.createElement("div"):	nSpan = document.createElement("span");
	mHTML = obj.innerHTML;
	obj.innerHTML = "";
	nSpan.innerHTML = mHTML;
	nSpan.setAttribute("style","position:relative;z-index:10;");
	obj.appendChild(nSpan);
}*/