Changing text on mouseover

[nyx3k]

I'm having a problem with some code that I typed up for a site. It works on my home computer under every browser that I have but it doesn't seem to work once I upload it.

Javascript --->

function changeText(description){
switch(description) {
case '1':
document.getElementById('describe').innerHTML = 'Travel back to the home page.';
break;
case '2':
document.getElementById('describe').innerHTML = 'Have a look at a range of websites that I have built or have had part in building.';
break;

...

default:
document.getElementById('describe').innerHTML = 'The portfolio of Ian Whitnall';
}
}

HTML --->

<div class="description_text" id="describe">
The portfolio of Ian Whitnall
</div>

<div class="nav_text"><a href="index.htm" class="nav_text" onMouseOver="changeText('1')" onMouseOut="changeText()">Home</a></div>

Can anyone see something wrong? Is there something I missed? Is case not commonly used in Javascript?

 

[nickdel]

nyx, can you point us to your uploaded page? I'm guessing there is a conflict of interests somewhere!

Nick

where would we be without rhetorical questions...

 

[nyx3k]

The site that I am building is

http://www.riskywhiskey.com.au

and the Javascript file is located

http://www.riskywhiskey.com.au/javascript/description.js

The only difference I see is that the markup is a single line because it is a unix server.

Wait I think I just found something. Because it seems to be in a single line the comment at the top might be commenting out the rest of the code. You can have a look to give your own verdict anyway though.

 

[nyx3k]

Is there a way to edit posts so I don't have to double post? Well thanks for the response, but I solved the problem. I feel like a bit of a fool.

I remembered a issue similar to this where I gave my code for an application to a windows user and he complained that the code was all on one line. Thats when I found out that windows machines use two whitespace characters to end a line and return, while unix only uses a single \n.

This is simple to get around by making the windows user to use a real code editor. Thanks again.