Newbie here, need to know if there is an easy way, using the tools in
Dreamweaver, to make a mouseover effect that makes a text description appear
when the mouse passes over a gif image? I'm html challenged, so I need a sim
ple
solution.

Thanks

In article <dp4vsq$ib4$1@forums.macromedia.com>,
"neophyte weaver" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> Newbie here, need to know if there is an easy way, using the tools in
> Dreamweaver, to make a mouseover effect that makes a text description appe
ar
> when the mouse passes over a gif image? I'm html challenged, so I need a
> simple
> solution.
>
>  Thanks

Well, some browsers will display the contents of the alt text of the
<img src="file.gif" alt="this is the file.gif"> tag if you do a mouse
over.  For others that don't, you could do something like what Netflix
does with images, which is to code a mouseover javascript.  Don't know
how you'd do this with just the native DW tools, though.  Try just
adding the ALT option to the IMG tag.  That will work for IE.

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DeeDee, don't press that button!  DeeDee!  NO!  Dee...

Just use the title attribute of the img tag...
<img src="test.gif" title="text to display on mouseover">

Thanks, that's almost exactly what I'm trying to achieve, the only thing is
when you move the mouse across the gif image, the text box description
disappears, it only stays visible if the hand (cursor) is stationary. Is the
re
a way to make the text box stay visible and move with the hand when the hand
moves around on the gif image?

Thanks

Have a look here at tooltips...

[url]http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=browser+html+tooltips+dhtml[/url
]

Tim



"neophyte weaver" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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Newbie here, need to know if there is an easy way, using the tools in
Dreamweaver, to make a mouseover effect that makes a text description appear
when the mouse passes over a gif image? I'm html challenged, so I need a sim
ple
solution.

Thanks