you can have a text pop up on mouseover for an image by using toolTip. Also you can put <a> tags around some keywords and onmouseover call javaScript to pop up a window
<a name="test" onmouseover=.....>test</a>
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For example when i seach for questions on keywords and then in the resultset when i get the search results. There on mouseover of certain key words i get a pop up box that gives me info about the keyword??
how does this happen???
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Hi,
A true popup window will be blocked by 'popup blockers'.
Another technique would be to use divs and then simply change the content and display or hide it when appropriate.
<script>
function doit(num)
{
if (num < 0)
document.getElementById('d
else
{
divContent = '<table bgcolor="yellow" border="3"><tr><td>'
divContent += txt[num];
divContent += '</td></tr></table>';
document.getElementById('d
document.getElementById('d
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
1)'>some text 1</a>
<a name="test" onmouseover='doit(1)' onmouseout='doit(-1)'>some
<a name="test" onmouseover='doit(2)' onmouseout='doit(-1)'>some
<div id="divA"></div>
You can also 'place' the div at the cursor.
Vinny
One of the best and easiest methods is to use the popular overlib code, found here:
http://www.bosrup.com/web/
The popups in EE are made by calling
window.createPopup();
in javascript on your webpage. Put the text in question in a div, TD or <a> section with an 'onmouseover' to trigger it. The popup text can be any legal DHTML.
<div onmouseover='dopopup();'>s
<script>
function dopopup()
{
opopup = window.createPopup();
opopup.style.backgroundCol
opopup.fontFamily = 'sans-serif';
opopup.document.body.inner
opopop.show(100, 100, 150, 150, document.body);
}
</script>
Yours didn't work for me when I tried it, ethrbunny. Does it work for you?
This one does work though:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JScript">
var oPopup = window.createPopup();
function popUp()
{
var oPopBody = oPopup.document.body;
oPopBody.style.backgroundC
oPopBody.style.border = "solid blue 1px";
oPopBody.innerHTML = "Click outside <B>popup</B> to close.";
// oPopup.show(px right, px down, width, height, document.body);
oPopup.show(event.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft, event.clientY + document.body.scrollTop, 250, 25, document.body);
// oPopup.show(250, 250, 250, 25, document.body);
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="white">
<a onMouseover="popUp()">Mous
</BODY>
</HTML>
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by: dorwardPosted on 2004-02-11 at 01:04:09ID: 10330465
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l4/" title="The HTML 4.01 Specification">HTML</a> for webpages.</p>
e.g.
<p>Use <a href="http://w3.org/TR/htm