can onMouseOver activate text in another table cell?

[Guest_imported]

Hey Guys,
I'm trying to set up something similar to an onMouseOver which flips remote images, but with text. I'm having little success. Basically I want to onMouseOver buttons or links and have descriptions of the link appear in another table cell before the user clicks on the link. Anyone know how I can do this? Thanks.
-Rufus

 

[PepperPepsi]

Hi,

you can use the "title" attribute, example:

<a href=&quot;link.html&quot; title=&quot;Link's description&quot;>Link</a>

<form>
<input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;Link2&quot; title=&quot;Link2's description&quot;>
</form>

this works for IE4+ and NN6

hope this helps,
Chiu Chan
WebMaster & Software Engineer
emagine solutions, inc

http://www.emagine-solutions.com

cchan@emagine-solutions.com

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks, I tried it but it didn't work. I'm trying to display the description text in another cell of the table. Please someone help me out here. Thanks.
-Rufus

 

[GIGN]

Start by giving the cell an id - then call a function from the mouseOver cell.

<td onMouseOver=&quot;showText(text)&quot;>mouseover this</td>
<td id=&quot;text&quot;> </td>


Then you have options, you can either write in the text, using innerHTML - which may become tiresome if there is a lot of it.

Or you can put all the text parts in a list with style.display se to &quot;none&quot;. Then use the function to show the appropriate list item.