function showVerticalMarkets(myOpacity)
{  myOpacity = (myOpacity) ? myOpacity : 50;
   var element = document.getElementById('VerticalMarkets');
   var elementBox = document.getElementById('VerticalMarketsBox');
   setOpacity(elementBox,myOpacity);
   setOpacity(element,"100");
   elementBox.style.display = 'block';
   element.style.display = 'block';
}

function hideVerticalMarkets()
{  var element = document.getElementById('VerticalMarkets');
   var elementBox = document.getElementById('VerticalMarketsBox');
   element.style.display = 'none';
   elementBox.style.display = 'none';
}

function setOpacity(obj, opacity) 
{  opacity = (opacity == 100) ? 99.999 : opacity;
	
   // IE/Win
   obj.style.filter = "alpha(opacity:"+opacity+")";
	
   // Safari < 1.2, Konqueror
   obj.style.KHTMLOpacity = opacity/100;
	
   // Older Mozilla and Firefox
   obj.style.MozOpacity = opacity/100;
	
   // Safari 1.2, newer Firefox and Mozilla, CSS3
   obj.style.opacity = opacity/100;
}