CSS Styles with Javascript Table Rollover

by "David R. Longnecker" <davidl(at)activematrixsolutions.com>

 Date:  Wed, 23 May 2001 22:51:14 -0500
 To:  "Hwg-Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
  todo: View Thread, Original
Hey everyone.. I'm attempting to modify a script that a fellow designer
sent to me.  The purpose of the script is to highlight and add a
rollover effect using CSS styles and javascript.  I'm trying to modify
it to spice it up a bit with a bold and colour change so that the text
is more readable _without_ applying it in styles, but in the javascript.
My problem is that I cannot figure out the proper DOM to activate the
font colour change.  I've been able to bold it, but not change it's
colour.  Below is a section of the Javascript.

function changeto(highlightcolor){
   source=event.srcElement
   if (source.tagName=="TR"||source.tagName=="TABLE")
   return
   while(source.tagName!="TD")
   source=source.parentElement
   if (source.style.backgroundColor!=highlightcolor&&source.id!="ignore")
   source.style.backgroundColor=highlightcolor
   source.style.fontweight="bold"
   // source.style.color="white"                 How to change this to
white?
   }

Any ideas would be great!  You can preview the page and code at
http://activematrixsolutions.com/preview-hwg.htm

TIA!!

-David

President & CEO
ActiveMatrix Solutions

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