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Pop-up help message box on mouse over link

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 11:29 pm
by billy_022
Can someone hint me on how to use javascript to pop-up a little help dialog box after mouseover a link?

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 11:34 pm
by Nay
Use alert()

eg:

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<a href="#" onmouseover="alert('you!');">you!</a>
-Nay

alert(0 is not suitable

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 11:40 pm
by billy_022
No alert() is not suitable. I just mean a little box that pops up near the mouse, and goes away after you mouse-off the link. The user should not have to click "OK" in order for the box to disappear.

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 11:54 pm
by Nay
Maybe:

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<a href="#" title="this is your text">your text</a>
-Nay

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 12:58 am
by mrvanjohnson
If you want to get fancy with it chck out overLIB. It's JavaScript and has a lot of functionality.

Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 8:06 pm
by dyconsulting
Here is a link to JS code that will do what you want.

http://www.brothercake.com/dropdown/
You can call this script from your links, onmouseover, and it will build very nice "tips".

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 11:59 am
by CantonDog
just for another option...

http://www.softcomplex.com/products/tig ... /demo.html

several different versions here... I think you'd want the one at the bottom of the page with the "links"

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 2:43 pm
by basdog22
A1javascripts maybe?