RE: How do I do this?

Hi

Showing the popup on rollover is not that hard, its creating a well =
defined
glossary that is the hard part (that's persistent from page to page),
especially if it has to be completely done in JavaScript (i.e. without =
any
server code).

I actually just completed a project with this in it. I may look at =
fixing up
the code so it's suitable for general use. However in the meantime there =
are
a number of scripts around that generate enhanced ALT tags basically =
which
would be a good place to start. Have a look at www.javascriptkit.com and
similar and I'm sure you'll find something.

BTW, the title attribute method (suggested before) doesn't work on older
browsers and doesn't allow any custom formatting. But if that's ok then =
use
it because it's much much simpler.

- Brett

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org] =
On
Behalf Of Norman Bunn
Sent: Friday, 5 September 2003 10:20 PM
To: Johnson, Mark AD-Staff; 'hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org '
Subject: Re: How do I do this?

At 09:40 AM 9/5/2003, Johnson, Mark    AD-Staff 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?
>
>Thanks much.
>
>Mark

One way to handle this is to add a span tag around the item with a title =

associated with it.

<span title=3D"stuff to know">information</span>

Of course, you may want to change the color by applying a style to the =
tag=20
via a class or inline.

Norman

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