onmouseover event

[dinger2121]

Hello,
I am using the following code to create a menu drop down (see below)
The code works fine. I then tried changing the text to a hyperlink, and the drop down is delayed. That is the only thing that changed - adding a <A> tag around the text to make it a hyperlink.
Does anyone have any idea why that might be happening?

Thanks

function document.onmouseover()
{
var eSrc = window.event.srcElement;
if ("clsMenuBarItem" == eSrc.className)
{
eSrc.style.color = "White";
var eMenu = document.all[eSrc.id.replace("tdMenuBarItem","divMenu")];
if (eOpenMenu && eOpenMenu != eMenu)
{
CloseMenu(eOpenMenu);
}
if (eMenu)
{
OpenMenu(eSrc,eMenu);
}
}
else if (eOpenMenu && !eOpenMenu.contains(eSrc) && !divMenuBar.contains(eSrc))
{
CloseMenu(eOpenMenu);
}
}

 

[Ascalonian]

I don't see the <A> tag in here. Can you please provide the rest of the code? Especially for OpenMenu and Close Menu?

Also, please use the [ code ] tag when posting your code.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I've seen this before - especially in IE. A regular span, etc, with onlick will have the onclick fire immediately. With an anchor, it will not always fire immediately.

Do you really need an anchor? If not, stick without it and style the element as you need (e.g. cursorointer, etc).

If you need an anchor, perhaps you need to add 'return false' to its onclick handler?

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[dinger2121]

thanks for the input. I have to use an anchor because I am using an xsl stylesheet to create a menu. below is the code from the xsl. I don't know any other way to add the hyperlink - any thoughts would be great.
Thanks again.

<A>
      <xsl:attribute name="HREF">[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mySite.com<xsl:value-of[/URL] select="@URL" /></xsl:attribute>
      
      <xsl:value-of select="@TYPE" />
      </A>

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Sorry - I know the square root of 0 about XSL.



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[dinger2121]

I was able to accomplish what I needed by adding an xsl attribute to my table cell, therefore eliminating the anchor tags.
below is the code.
Thanks for everyone's help.

<xsl:attribute name="onclick">document.location.href='[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mySite.com<xsl:value-of[/URL] select="@URL" />';</xsl:attribute>