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Need a helpful suggestion

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:32 am
by mjseaden
Dear All,

I have a 'combobox' control on my web page, which contains a list of scientific parameters.

The users of the web page may not understand the meaning of the parameter names. I have all the parameter names and descriptions in a database, so all I need to do is look up the descriptions of the parameters in a MySQL table.

However, I don't know how to show the parameter description to the user. Ideally, I would have a description come up on the page itself depending upon the parameter the user is hovering over with the mouse before selecting (I suspect this may be clientside, however if it doesn't have to be clientside then that might be easier).

Can anyone explain how this could be done?

Many thanks

Mark

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:35 am
by John Cartwright
You really have to be more specific of your layout.....

The possibilties are endless. And you are correct, I avoid uding JS to an extent because you cannot control if the user has JS enabled or not.

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:29 am
by hedge
a 'combo' box has a value property, set this to the 'code' but display the description to the user.

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:34 pm
by rehfeld