multi-line tooltips in Navigator

[Paul W]

Hi - I want the 'title' attribute on an table cell to show, eg.

Line 1 text
Line 2 text


- ie. I want a MULTI-LINE tooltip. I can get this working in IE by having a
CHR(13), but this just shows as a black bar in NN. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Paul.

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

there's a script called "overlib" but you'll have to search for it.
I had this one bookmarked since it looked easier and more simple to
implement than overlib:
http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm

HTH

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[Guest]

To insert a basic tooltip (the one that you normally see in Windows), with
multiple lines open a new line for the tool-tip text where you want to break
the line as if a <pre> tag were added.

For example, this code

<a href="http://office.microsoft.com/frontpage" title="Office Online
FrontPage Home">FrontPage</a>

would produce a hyperlink going to http://office.microsoft.com/frontpage and
its tool-tip will appear as

Office Online
FrontPage Home

 

[Paul W]

Yes, this is what I want to do, but unfortunately I don't fully understand
your solution. What character(s) are between "Office Online" and "FrontPage
Home" in your example. Could you possibly show me the exact html? Does this
solution work in Netscape?

Thanks,

Paul.

 

[Guest]

As your title is asking for a code that works in Netscape, I shall declare
explicitly that the code in this post does NOT work in Netscape. Go to
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/index.html or the site posted by
Chris (http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm) to find some script
that works in Netscape.

Anyway I shall explain more about the code in my previous post:

<a href="http://office.microsoft.com/frontpage" title="Office Online
FrontPage Home">FrontPage</a>

This is the exact html code you should type in. Between 'Online' and
'FrontPage' is a line-breaker (just like inserting a Chr(13)). That means
when you have finished typing 'Online', press Enter to open a new line as if
you were working in a word processor such as Word and type the tool-tip text
that will appear in the second line. To insert more lines, simply break the
tool-tip text into more lines.

For instance, this code

<a href="http://office.microsoft.com/frontpage" title="Office Online
Front
Page Home">FrontPage</a>

would generate this tool-tip:

Office Online
Front
Page Home

Note that you should switch to HTML view and work with the code directly
because hitting Enter in the tool-tip dialog box in FrontPage is equivalent
to clicking the OK button.

When displayed with Netscape, the entire tool-tip will be displayed in a
single line with some odd characters (or symbols ... I should say) replacing
the line breakers.

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

Xero,
Why don't you try the link I gave you above:
http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm
Quoting from it's description:
Cross Browser Functionality

Except of a few rarely used ones, all browsers can interpret this
Tooltip JavaScript.

Linux:
Konqueror 3, Browsers with Gecko-Engine (Mozilla, Netscape 6, Galeon),
Netscape 4 and 6, Opera 5 and 6.

Windows:
Netscape 4, Gecko Browsers, IE 4, 5.0, 5.5 und 6.0, Opera 5, 6, 7

Other systems:
The matches to the above listed Linux/Windows browsers have full
access.


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