I am lerning how to create a website and am using Dreamweaver CS3.
I would like to creat what I could only describe as a "Hover Box" - when I mouse over an image or hot spot I would like a text box to open showing details of the image or spot.
An example I have found on the web is at
http://www.daemon-tools.cc
If you goto the bottom of the page once it has loaded and place the mouse over the words WEB DESIGN a box appears displaying nicely formatted text.
I do have flash and fireworks as well but the easiest solution would be best.
The page will display approx 10 images and when I place the mouse over an image I would like one of these box's to be displayed specifying details about the image (approx 100 words will be in the box)
Different text will be displayed in the box for each image
I hope this makes sense. I have searched the web, help files and several books/tutorials but because I am unsure of what these boxes are called I am at a lost
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i would think the easiest way would be to create a 2 frame movieclip where the first frame has the hotspot and the second has the rollover state and you'd simply create a little box with what you want and use onRollOver and onRollOut.
if you want to get all fancy you can create a class to handle it.
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by: najhPosted on 2007-08-23 at 02:30:41ID: 19752544
Well you could do this in Flash, but i don't think flash is appropriate in this case, although it'd probably be easiest. (for me at least!)
I reckon your solution is a mix of css and javascript. You need to have a little floating div which is at a higher z-index. Then you need some javascript which reacts to the onMouseOver event of the link which then sets the visibility of your floating div to visible. It'll do this by affecting the style of the div in question.
This might help: (although I've not checked it out but it looks the right sort of thing)
http://www.willmaster.com/