Need simple mouseover baloon example 1

[awingnut]

I am looking for an exampe of a simple mouseover balloon. All the examples I can find are much too fancy for what I want or have the capacity to learn right now.

I have a page with some fixed text. I'm looking for an example of how to display a balloon, with additional fixed text, when the mouse is passed over it. TIA

 

[jemminger]

<span title=&quot;How simple is this?&quot;>Mouse over me</span>

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try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }
-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

 

[mwolf00]

Try

http://www.overlib.com

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[awingnut]

jemminger:

A little too simple. It works great, thanks. But I am not familiar with that tag. Its HTML, not javascript, right?

 

[jemminger]

yes: the &quot;title&quot; attribute can be inserted into nearly any html tag.



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try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }
-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

 

[xutopia]

awingnut,

The title attribute is standard HTML. Though as you may realize Jemminger has great knowledge of JS he's giving you a good advice to use HTML where JS simply isn't needed.

The title attribute will require less work for people to maintain and behaves exactly how users expect it to.

Why bother with JS when simple HTML can work for you?

Anyways a star to Jemminger for his answer.

Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran
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