Help with screen tips

[Martin Peafur Longtyme]

I have seen some web pages that when you hover your mouse
over a Link it shows a picture with a description. I want
to do this but can only get the text (screen tip). I know
this will probably make the page downloading time
lengthen but I intend to only use a couple of pics and
they wont be high quality, probably a GIF if I can figure
it out. I have made a Excel Spreadsheet with links and
the screen tips and have converted it to a web page. Not
what I really want but will suffice for the present time.
Which is why I want to make a web page in Front Page and
put a little more pizzaz in it. I have seen the picture
and text (screen tip) done on the Staples web site(
usually with their sales circular)

http://instorespecials.staples.com/staples/circular_browse
_page_view.asp?rapid=26871&pagenumber=1&prvid=Staples-
031012&storeid=2278908&

Do I need something other than Front Page? Maybe
Dreamweaver? any suggestions to get me past this hurdle?

 

[E. T. Culling]

I suggest you try searching Google for 'tooltips' or possibly go to
www.dynamicdrive.com to see what they have in the way of javascripts.

 

[Destin_FL]

Martin,
The greatest "tooltips" I know of and a really killer all-around website:

http://www.walterzorn.com

Tim


I have seen some web pages that when you hover your mouse
over a Link it shows a picture with a description. I want
to do this but can only get the text (screen tip). I know
this will probably make the page downloading time
lengthen but I intend to only use a couple of pics and
they wont be high quality, probably a GIF if I can figure
it out. I have made a Excel Spreadsheet with links and
the screen tips and have converted it to a web page. Not
what I really want but will suffice for the present time.
Which is why I want to make a web page in Front Page and
put a little more pizzaz in it. I have seen the picture
and text (screen tip) done on the Staples web site(
usually with their sales circular)

http://instorespecials.staples.com/staples/circular_browse
_page_view.asp?rapid=26871&pagenumber=1&prvid=Staples-
031012&storeid=2278908&

Do I need something other than Front Page? Maybe
Dreamweaver? any suggestions to get me past this hurdle?

 

[Andrew Murray]

I have seen some web pages that when you hover your mouse
over a Link it shows a picture with a description. I want
to do this but can only get the text (screen tip). I know
this will probably make the page downloading time
lengthen but I intend to only use a couple of pics and
they wont be high quality, probably a GIF if I can figure
it out. I have made a Excel Spreadsheet with links and
the screen tips and have converted it to a web page. Not
what I really want but will suffice for the present time.
Which is why I want to make a web page in Front Page and
put a little more pizzaz in it. I have seen the picture
and text (screen tip) done on the Staples web site(
usually with their sales circular)

http://instorespecials.staples.com/staples/circular_browse
_page_view.asp?rapid=26871&pagenumber=1&prvid=Staples-
031012&storeid=2278908&

Do I need something other than Front Page? Maybe
Dreamweaver? any suggestions to get me past this hurdle?

You just put alt="your text" in your <a href> tags

Or, yes, in Frontpage or dreamweaver you can use the GUI to insert the text in
the "hyperlink" features of those packages

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Add a "title" attribute to any HTML element tag that you want to show a
tooltip for. This will have to be done in HTML view, as I don't believe
FrontPage supports this attribute natively. Example:

<input type="text" name="myTextBox" size="20" title="Enter your name here">

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
http://www.takempis.com
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Lots of Little Things.