Re: How do I do this?

by Charles A Upsdell <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>

Date:	Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:01:42 -0400
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Cc:	"Johnson, Mark AD-Staff" <JohnsonM(at)issaquah.wednet.edu>
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At 09:40 AM 09/05/03, you wrote:
>I would like to add a glossary to one of my sites.  I'd like to have a
>definition for a term appear when the user hovers over the term.  I picture
>this as something similar to the 'tool tips' in an MS Office application.
>
>I've tried and can't make somthing like this.  How do I do this?

Use the TITLE attribute in an ACRONYM, DFN, or SPAN tag. For example:

     <acronym title="Deoxyribonucleic Acid">DNA</acronym>

Note that this won't work with very old browsers, e.g. Netscape 4.



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Chuck Upsdell
Email:     cupsdell(at)upsdell.com
Website:   http://www.upsdell.com/

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