JavaScript DHTML Tooltip Problem: breaks

I found a JavaScript 'tooltip-like' solution that is supposed to work in all
browsers. Trying to adapt it to my page.

The 'tooltip' works first time (Explorer) then breaks. Seems to work
reliably in Netscape and Safari.

It is at:
http://www.hoppernet.info/scriptester.htm

I am not skilful enough to find and repair the problem.

Can someone please look at the code and help?

Dan H.

PS
I searched MM site for 'tooltip' help. Found one that uses the IE tooltip
capability but it doesn't work in other browsers.

Seems that this would be an excellent cross-browser 'behaviour' for a tool
builder to develop.

Bob:

I am assuming it is functional in IE5x/Mac? At one time, Eric had said he
was not interested in supporting the Mac....

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"Robert E Boughner" <reboughner (AT) widomaker (DOT) com> wrote

Dan Hopper wrote:
I found a JavaScript 'tooltip-like' solution that is supposed to work in
all
browsers. Trying to adapt it to my page.

The 'tooltip' works first time (Explorer) then breaks. Seems to work
reliably in Netscape and Safari.

It is at:
http://www.hoppernet.info/scriptester.htm

I am not skilful enough to find and repair the problem.

Can someone please look at the code and help?

Dan H.

PS
I searched MM site for 'tooltip' help. Found one that uses the IE tooltip
capability but it doesn't work in other browsers.

Seems that this would be an excellent cross-browser 'behaviour' for a
tool
builder to develop.

Take a look at overLIB (http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/), which is a
'tooltip' like utility. As a co-developer of this utility, I know that it
will work in the following browsers: Netscape 4.x (not all features),
Netscape 6+, Mozilla 1.7+, FireFox 1.0, Opera 7.54, Safari, and IE4+. I
believe that it will also work in Konqueror too but I can't verify that.
To see how others are using it monitor
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/overlib/

Bob Boughner

Dan Hopper wrote:

I found a JavaScript 'tooltip-like' solution that is supposed to work in all
browsers. Trying to adapt it to my page.

The 'tooltip' works first time (Explorer) then breaks. Seems to work
reliably in Netscape and Safari.

It is at:
http://www.hoppernet.info/scriptester.htm

I am not skilful enough to find and repair the problem.

Can someone please look at the code and help?

Dan H.

PS
I searched MM site for 'tooltip' help. Found one that uses the IE tooltip
capability but it doesn't work in other browsers.

Seems that this would be an excellent cross-browser 'behaviour' for a tool
builder to develop.

Take a look at overLIB (http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/), which is a

'tooltip' like utility. As a co-developer of this utility, I know that
it will work in the following browsers: Netscape 4.x (not all
features), Netscape 6+, Mozilla 1.7+, FireFox 1.0, Opera 7.54, Safari,
and IE4+. I believe that it will also work in Konqueror too but I can't
verify that. To see how others are using it monitor
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/overlib/

Bob Boughner

Dan Hopper wrote:

I found a JavaScript 'tooltip-like' solution that is supposed to work in all
browsers. Trying to adapt it to my page.

The 'tooltip' works first time (Explorer) then breaks. Seems to work
reliably in Netscape and Safari.

It is at:
http://www.hoppernet.info/scriptester.htm

I am not skilful enough to find and repair the problem.

Can someone please look at the code and help?

Dan H.

PS
I searched MM site for 'tooltip' help. Found one that uses the IE tooltip
capability but it doesn't work in other browsers.

Seems that this would be an excellent cross-browser 'behaviour' for a tool
builder to develop.

I forgot to mention that I have a Dreamweaver extension for overLIB
which makes insertion of the necessary code very easy. Check out
http://overlib.boughner.us/Dreamweaver/ The email address has an overLIB
tooltip attached to it.

Bob Boughner

.oO(Robert E Boughner)

Take a look at overLIB (http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/), which is a
'tooltip' like utility.

And a real heavy-weight. More than 40k just for tooltips ...

Micha

Dan Hopper wrote:

I found a JavaScript 'tooltip-like' solution that is supposed to work
in all browsers. Trying to adapt it to my page.
snip
PS
I searched MM site for 'tooltip' help. Found one that uses the IE
tooltip capability but it doesn't work in other browsers.

Seems that this would be an excellent cross-browser 'behaviour' for a
tool builder to develop.

Trent over at 4Level has already developed such an extension
http://www.fourlevel.com

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Seriously I prefer to do a tooltip using CSS, is better thinking about time,
weight and more.

example.

your menu is inside a div sou in this div you place this declaration: div:
position: relative;

the tooltip is stay inside the tag span

<a href="#">Home<span>the tooltip works here</span></a>

div a span {display: none}

div a:hover span {position: absolute; top: 0; right: 150px; widht: 150px;,
background-color: #000; color: #fff; border: 2px solid #fff}

is that

I think its better

div a:hover span {position: absolute; top: 0; right: 150px; width: 150px;
background-color: #000; color: #fff; border: 2px solid #fff; display:block;}

I believe this would work better.


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"Leandro_Brazil" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Seriously I prefer to do a tooltip using CSS, is better thinking about
time,
weight and more.

example.

your menu is inside a div sou in this div you place this declaration: div:
position: relative;

the tooltip is stay inside the tag span

a href="#">Home<span>the tooltip works here</span></a

div a span {display: none}

div a:hover span {position: absolute; top: 0; right: 150px; widht: 150px;,
background-color: #000; color: #fff; border: 2px solid #fff}

is that

I think its better