How get web page to show text description when mousing over pics/t

[Guest]

I believe they used to be called "mouseovers". I want to show a hovering
text box when people roll their mouse over some text and pictures in my
website in order to describe further the text or pictures.

 

[Cheryl D Wise]

Depending on what you are trying to display you can either use the title
attribute

<img src="images/image.jpg" width="110" height="90" title="short bit of
information" alt="what it does">

or you can use javascript to display a layer on mouseover or you can use
overlib which works the same way http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

if the text boxes don't need to be formatted you can just surround the word
or picture with:
<span title="descriptive stuff goes here"> and </span>.
you could also look into using layers and behaviors or an outside script
like "overlib" or this:
http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm
HTH

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