show value onmouseover

discusmania · Aug 29, 2001

hi guys....

Let say i have a list box that the item is so long, so i show only part on the text (i fix the list box width) what i want to do is when i point on that item in the list, a title will show the full text of that item.

how to do that?...

Thanks a lot

Guest_imported · Aug 29, 2001

Very interesting question.
I've spent some time trying to find any tip on how to do it.
It doesn't seem like a possibility to accomplish this task on onmouseover event.
1.If one would want to dynamically manipulate TITLE attribute on some event occurrence, only input elements and anchors support this attribute, and <SELECT> is not it.
2.Second reason is that <OPTION> doesn't support any events at all.

So, if you'll find some info on how to do it, please post it to the Forum.

Guest_imported · Aug 29, 2001

discusmania,
here's a suggestion. Not onmouseover, but onchange.
Take a look.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">

</STYLE>
</head>

<body>
<DIV ID="myLayer1" CLASS="myStyle" ></DIV>
<form name="d">
<select name="f" multiple style="width:40px;" onblur="myLayer1.innerText=''" onchange="myLayer1.innerText=d.f.options[d.f.selectedIndex].innerText">
<option value="test" title="test">Testtttttttttttttttt1
<option value="test" title="test">Testtttttttttttttttt2
<option value="test" title="test">Testtttttttttttttttt3
</select>
</form>

</body>
</html>

Hope this will help.

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