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onmouseover quote useages

Hi guys,

Im emplementing a png fix for IE however I am trying to do it on a mouseover(tooltip) which is being handled by domTT.

Heres my problem, I think I need to learn my quote useage and or a new way for doing this what im trying to do below.

the basic link
<a href="index.htm" onmouseover="domTT_activate(this, event, 'content', 'actual text or image goes here');">the link</a>

Now i need to put the image in where it says "actual text or image goes here"

<a href="index.htm" onmouseover="domTT_activate(this, event, 'content', '<img src="/images/riskfree.png" alt="foo" width="10" height="20" onload="fixPNG(this)">');">the link</a>

Now that wont work im pretty sure because of the quote situation. anyone have any ideas on how best to do this?

shaggy_the_sheep

Hi

I'm not sure if this will fix it but if you replace the double quotes around the image source, alt text and border with \' then that should fix it

Richard

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shaggy_the_sheep

i replaced the double quotes with \' on my home pc and it worked fine. I'm not escaping the HTML quotes...i am simply replacing them with single quotes. I need to escape the single quotes to allow the javascript to work correctly

Zvonko

If your prefer your original version, then check this:

<a href="index.htm" onmouseover="domTT_activate(this, event, 'content', '<img src=\'/images/riskfree.png\' alt=\'foo\' width=\'10\' height=\'20\' onload=\'fixPNG(this)\'>');">the link</a>

As you see, the starting quotation characters for the onmouseover string MUST NOT! be used inside the string.

shaggy_the_sheep

i see you what you are saying.

i think i wasn't clear in my original anwser....it is only necessary to escape the quotes within the onmouseover event.

Zvonko

When you have understood the concept then you can do it as you like it, but you cannot use the same quotation character for string surrounding and inside the quoted HTML string.

shaggy_the_sheep

oh yes i understand what you mean...thanks for clearing it up

Richard

Zvonko

You are welcome.