Dreamweaver - Re: hover text over other text?

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Re: hover text over other text?

Joe Makowiec

2004-11-16, 6:43 pm

On 05 Nov 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, LawLady wrote:

> I am trying to make some hover text. I have a Table of Content, of
> 12 chapters. For each chapter, I want to be able to have the cursor
> hover over each one, and what happens is a brief description of that
> chapter appears over it. I don't want to call this a 'pop up' -- is
> that what it is? I hope I'm explaining this properly -- I have
> never done it before -- I'm only assuming DW can do it actually.
> Any help would be appreciated, as I don't know much about DW at all!

I'm assuming that the text is a link to the chapter itself? Add a title
attribute to the link:

<a href="chapter1.php" title="Chapter 1: THE NATURE OF ART">Chapter 1</a>

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email: http://makowiec.net/email.php

LawLady

2004-11-16, 6:43 pm

Hi Joe -- thanks for replying to my post so quickly. No the text -- let's say
it is 'Chapter 1: The Nature of Art' -- does not link to another page (when you
say LINK, I am thinking it links to another page). When the cursor hovers over
'Chapter 1: The Nature of Art', I want a pararaph to pop up on the screen,
saying 'This chapter covers XXXXXXX' -- that make sense? Thanks, LawLady

LawLady

2004-11-16, 6:44 pm

Hey Joe -- thanks again -- I tried the last way you suggested, since it seems
to much quicker -- it did not work -- when I was done, my text was not linked,
even though I did highlight it prior to clicking CTRL T, and what I typed in
between the <> arrows, came up in the code, that's it. It does not show up
when I test the page (by pressing F12). I did use double quotes around my
CHAPTER 1: BLAH BLAH BLAH text. The first way you suggested, where I
actually type all that stuff into the code, DOES work, but it worked only once
-- after that, i came up as code actually IN the page - you could see all the
code, and it also ended up deleting some of my text somehow, but that might be
a separate problem, but yet only happened when I tried doing it for Chapter 2.
Thanks! Sincerely, LawLady

td_

2004-11-16, 6:45 pm

Hi, Lawdy Miss Clawdy,

I have seen a code like this :
onMouseOver="ChangeMessage...
and, at the end of the procedure,
onMouseOut="ChangeMessage('','ejs_text')">

As a beginner, I 'm not able to use this code, but I believe it does respond
to your desire as well as mine.
Any clear explanation from the NG on how to use this code would be much
appreciated.
Thank you,

Terence Boo

LawLady" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:cmge8k$ok6$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi all -- I am trying to make some hover text. I have a Table of Content,
of
> 12 chapters. For each chapter, I want to be able to have the cursor hover
over
> each one, and what happens is a brief description of that chapter appears
over
> it. I don't want to call this a 'pop up' -- is that what it is? I hope
I'm
> explaining this properly -- I have never done it before -- I'm only
assuming DW
> can do it actually. Any help would be appreciated, as I don't know much
about
> DW at all! Sincerely, LawLady
>