trouble with pop up field

I want to create a small pop up filed as a mouse over effect. (not a new
browserwindow) The purpose is to write down a few keywords. When you roll over
these words or click them, there should open a small pop up field with more
explanation about the keyword. In MS excel you find a similar function. An
example of what I mean is http://www.okp.be/html/test.htm I am using
dreamweaver 4 thx for any input.

<span title="This is what you are looking for">Here are some words</span>

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

I want to create a small pop up filed as a mouse over effect. (not a new
browserwindow) The purpose is to write down a few keywords. When you roll
over
these words or click them, there should open a small pop up field with
more
explanation about the keyword. In MS excel you find a similar function. An
example of what I mean is http://www.okp.be/html/test.htm I am using
dreamweaver 4 thx for any input.

Use a simple show/hide layer?

Draw a layer on your page, choose hidden form the properties menu and
then make it visible when a user mouses over the keyword using the
show/hide layer behaviour.

First select the keyword, go to the properties menu and type the word
javascript:; into the link field to make it active.

With the keyword still selected go to behaviours and select the name of
the layer you want to show, then select for the event, onMouseOver.




Ericop wrote:

I want to create a small pop up filed as a mouse over effect. (not a new
browserwindow) The purpose is to write down a few keywords. When you roll over
these words or click them, there should open a small pop up field with more
explanation about the keyword. In MS excel you find a similar function. An
example of what I mean is http://www.okp.be/html/test.htm I am using
dreamweaver 4 thx for any input.

Murray *TMM* wrote:

span title="This is what you are looking for">Here are some words</span

that's only ok for PC IE though isnt it?

Nope. Title attributes are universally supported. It's the alt attribute
that only does tooltips on IE.

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"Osgood" <notavailable (AT) atthisaddress (DOT) com> wrote

Murray *TMM* wrote:

span title="This is what you are looking for">Here are some words</span



that's only ok for PC IE though isnt it?

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Nope. Title attributes are universally supported. It's the alt attribute
that only does tooltips on IE.

Doesnt seem to do much in Mac IE 5x or Safari. It does work in Firefox
though

Works fine on Mac IE5 and Safari, dood.

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"Osgood" <notavailable (AT) atthisaddress (DOT) com> wrote

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Nope. Title attributes are universally supported. It's the alt
attribute that only does tooltips on IE.


Doesnt seem to do much in Mac IE 5x or Safari. It does work in Firefox
though

Osgood wrote:

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Nope. Title attributes are universally supported. It's the alt
attribute that only does tooltips on IE.


Doesnt seem to do much in Mac IE 5x or Safari. It does work in Firefox
though

oops tell a lie, it does work in Mac IE5x but there where a few seconds
delay so I thought it wasnt working. It doesnt appear to work in safari
1.0 though.

Osgood wrote:

Doesnt seem to do much in Mac IE 5x or Safari. It does work in Firefox
though

Both IE5.x/Mac and Safari support the title attribute. Perhaps they
don't support in <span>? They will show it for images and links.

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James Shook wrote:

Osgood wrote:

Doesnt seem to do much in Mac IE 5x or Safari. It does work in Firefox
though


Both IE5.x/Mac and Safari support the title attribute. Perhaps they
don't support in <span>? They will show it for images and links.

Maybe the span I dont know but it isnt working in my version of Safari

and it isnt very responsive in IE5.2 either. Not a good choice in my
opinion.