Newbie needs help! 3

[IronKitten]

I am interested in adding a tiny little (i guess it's a mouseover?) that shows a description of something when you put your mouse over it. Could anyone tell me how that's done. Please make your answers unassuming....i'm (der!) limited in scope! Thanks!!

 

[Sensibilium]

Try this:

<A href=&quot;somepage.htm&quot; onmouseover=&quot;window.status='Your comments/description here'; return true;&quot; onmouseout=&quot;window.status='Done.'; return true;&quot;>

Ahdkaw
"What would you expect from a bunch of monkeys?"

http://www.sensibilium.com

Where the sensible gather... or so they say.

 

[dianal]

IE only solution:
<a href=&quot;somepage.htm&quot; title=&quot;Description goes here&quot;>Text</a>
will show yellow ToolTip with &quot;Description goes here&quot;

D.

 

[IronKitten]

Thanks you guys.....ahdkaw....you came closer to what I'm looking to do....that shows the text in the bottom of the browser window....but what i really want is a little tiny screen to come up with say a definition of a word...when the mouse goes over it..... ya got one more in there????

Thanks.....

 

[IronKitten]

wait wait wait....okay i'm new....didn't get it....dianal....that is EXACTLY what I wanted!!!!

I'm so excited I could just scream! <B><u>THANKS!</u></B>

 

[IronKitten]

ONE more little question.....can i get that to work over an image file as well?

thanks again......

 

[dianal]

<img src=&quot;some.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Description of picture&quot;>

 

[dirtystim]

Aww! Welcome Iron kitten!

I was where you 'are' a few months ago, but I still get darn excited when these great brains show me the light!
nice to meet someone who gets excited too!!
If i can help ya i will!

Now where'd I put that CSS post!


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[IronKitten]

you guys are the greatest.....i never knew such an awesome resource existed...I can't wait to put a link to it on my new site.....if i ever get the darn thing done!

Mucho Gratitude!

 

[Bentley22]

If your looking for a really useful and powerful tooltip utility, I'd suggest you check this out:

http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/

This gives you a compleatly customizable popup tooltip. Slight warning, this isn't for extream newbies, you'll want to have a basic knowlege of Javascript, and a understanding of DHTML would help too if you want to dig into the guts of it.

 

[IronKitten]

well thank you Bentley!!

it's things like this that let me graduate from newbie to armed and dangerous!! LOL!


Thanks again....