mouseover on text

K

KatWoman

I have saved the instructions on how to show and image in a layer on a
mouseover of a thumbnail.
I also would like some images to show in the layer when a person mouse overs
on the text in a list
how do I make the text do mouseover?
When I select the text the behaviors dialog is greyed out.
I tried to make a layer around the text but I was not sure to set it to
hidden or visible?
 
M

Murray

Select the text, and use INSERT | Hyperlink. In the link field, enter
"javascript:;" (that's colon semicolon), and click OK. Now you can apply a
behavior to it (having made it into a null link).
 
K

KatWoman

thank you that's what I was trying to figure out

Murray said:
Select the text, and use INSERT | Hyperlink. In the link field, enter
"javascript:;" (that's colon semicolon), and click OK. Now you can apply
a behavior to it (having made it into a null link).
Click to expand...
 
K

KatWoman

either I did something wrong or it doesn't show in preview mode

thanks for the info
upon re-reading I think I am "getting it"
back to testing
 
K

KatWoman

YAY me and thank u
I did it!!!
got a nice big picture to popup on mouseover of text
managed to get a border on it too
I used no positioning and put the image size for the width and height
I tried to make the layer move into opening in a specific cell in a table
but was unsuccessful
is there a way to control where the image pops up? everyone has warned me
away from absolute position
 
K

KatWoman

thanks, I am saving page for future study
now that I got one image to work I cannot seem to get a second one on
another word
I added "javascript:;" to it as a hyperlink, made a new layer with an image
now when I click the text all the behaviors are still greyed out?
I could not get it to make a layer inside a table or drag it into the table,
it turns to a picture not a layer?
unless I save it and imbed the picture to the web the layers disappear from
the palette before I can create the link from the text (not invisible, layer
info is not in palette for layer I just made)
is the method you link to about keeping cells visible or invisible?
 
R

Ronx

My first example (using tables to structure/layout the page) is a
simple image swap - a default image is swapped to a different image
using image-swap behaviours. There are no layers, or
visible/invisible/hidden attributes.

The second example uses layers with the visible/invisible/hidden
attributes swapped with behaviours. These layers are NEVER placed in
tables or cells. They are absolutely positioned, and carry with that
all the advantages and disadvantages of absolute positioning - open
the second example and change the browser font settings to see one
major disadvantage with that page structure. This method does not
need a default image to swap.
 
K

KatWoman

"They are absolutely positioned"

why was I told not to use that?
If I do want it, I just set the "where" under position with the x, y?
 
R

Ronx

Correct. But in code view the layer should be directly after the
<body> tag, or immediately before the </body> tag.
The biggest disadvantage of using one or two absolutely positioned
layers is that the rest of the page is not absolutely positioned - the
page contents will move around the layers as the browser is resized
and the font settings changed. This is not so easy to control, and is
probably the main reason why you are told to not use layers.
 

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