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My web site provides technical information that sometimes requires the use
of jargon that may be unfamiliar to readers. If possible without too much
overhead I'd like to make it possible for readers to click on a highlighted
term and get a brief definition or other explanation without taking them to
another page, so they can continue reading where they were after seeing what
this term means. What's the best way to do this? Is there a way that works
in all popular browsers?
 
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| My web site provides technical information that sometimes requires the use
| of jargon that may be unfamiliar to readers. If possible without too much
| overhead I'd like to make it possible for readers to click on a
highlighted
| term and get a brief definition or other explanation without taking them
to
| another page, so they can continue reading where they were after seeing
what
| this term means. What's the best way to do this? Is there a way that works
| in all popular browsers?
|
|
 
You might try using tool tips that show on mouseover.

It's done like this.

<span>Term<title="The definition of this term is"></span>

And use a different font color for Term so folks will know to mouse over it.

hth
 
I didn't know you could use span that way. Works in NN (current version, at
least) as well as IE, but as far as I can tell the syntax has to be:

<span title="The definition of this term is">Term</span>

in case anyone else wants to use this idea.
 
Could be I had it backwards, I was
doing some javascript work at the time
and sorta wrote that from memory without looking.
;-)
 
IMHO, this would be a terrible solution to a simple problem. Instead I would
propose that a little JavaScript an the title tag to display the def , e.g.,

<span title="This is my big term which has no def!" >my big term</span>

Works in Opera / NS 6 > and IE 4 >

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That's the perfect solution as long as the definition is short enough that
people can read it before the tooltip disappears. You also can't control
the appearance of a tooltip.

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