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How do I show text on a Mouseover?

I am fairly new to dreamweaver and using CS3.  I am updating a webpage of ours that needs to display a definition when the user hovers over a specific word on the page.  I am not sure how this can be done.  I am familiar with rollover images and figure it is the same concept but am stuck.  Any helpful thoughts would be appreciated.
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You have a couple of different options when it comes to a rollover "tooltip"
http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-tooltip/
http://www.codylindley.com/blogstuff/js/jtip/
Or Spry:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/tooltip/SpryTooltipSample.html
In my own opinion, I think Jquery would be better for your purpose here.
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There is a complete solution here:
http://www.texsoft.it/index.php?c=software&m=sw.js.htmltooltip&l=it
The easiest way is using "title" property. For example:
<a href=http://www.google.com title="Gooooooogle">Google</a>
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Where do I paste the definition on my HTML document?
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I guess you didn't read my answer well ziggy, it was the same :) well..whatever.