Screen tips

[Guest]

Hi,

I need to insert a screen tip in a unlinked phrase and I can't figure how to
do it. I've browsed the Help section of FrontPage2003 but it hasn't been
very...helpful. I've tried (perhaps wrongly) to insert a layer, but not only
I can't understand the behavior routine 'onmouseover'/'onmouseout' as also
the layer breaks the initial line of plain text.

Can anyone tell me how to do this, exactly?
P.S.1- The text is inside a table.
P.S. 2- I have no problems inserting a screentip on the hiperlink dialog box.

Thanks

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

I dunno why this works but it seems to--

Create your line of text, then highlight it as if you were going to create a hyperlink. Then select Hyperlink - your link of text will appear in the top window Text To Display, then click on the button next to it Screen Tip... and enter the Screen Tip you want to display.

Make sure your displayed text is also in the Address window at the bottom...where the hyperlink address 'would' be...weird I know but it will work.

Click OK.
Save Page
then Preview it in Browser - see if that is what you want it to do.


| Hi,
|
| I need to insert a screen tip in a unlinked phrase and I can't figure how to
| do it. I've browsed the Help section of FrontPage2003 but it hasn't been
| very...helpful. I've tried (perhaps wrongly) to insert a layer, but not only
| I can't understand the behavior routine 'onmouseover'/'onmouseout' as also
| the layer breaks the initial line of plain text.
|
| Can anyone tell me how to do this, exactly?
| P.S.1- The text is inside a table.
| P.S. 2- I have no problems inserting a screentip on the hiperlink dialog box.
|
| Thanks

 

[Steve Easton]

It can be done with span tags and a title tag.

Try this:

<span title="This is the text to display on mouseover">Visible text</span>


--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
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[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

The problem of course is that this creates a dead hyperlink...so it really doesn't work well...sorry.


I dunno why this works but it seems to--

Create your line of text, then highlight it as if you were going to create a hyperlink. Then select Hyperlink - your link of text will appear in the top window Text To Display, then click on the button next to it Screen Tip... and enter the Screen Tip you want to display.

Make sure your displayed text is also in the Address window at the bottom...where the hyperlink address 'would' be...weird I know but it will work.

Click OK.
Save Page
then Preview it in Browser - see if that is what you want it to do.


| Hi,
|
| I need to insert a screen tip in a unlinked phrase and I can't figure how to
| do it. I've browsed the Help section of FrontPage2003 but it hasn't been
| very...helpful. I've tried (perhaps wrongly) to insert a layer, but not only
| I can't understand the behavior routine 'onmouseover'/'onmouseout' as also
| the layer breaks the initial line of plain text.
|
| Can anyone tell me how to do this, exactly?
| P.S.1- The text is inside a table.
| P.S. 2- I have no problems inserting a screentip on the hiperlink dialog box.
|
| Thanks

 

[Guest]

Great!!
It worked just fine.
Thanks Steve

It can be done with span tags and a title tag.

Try this:

<span title="This is the text to display on mouseover">Visible text</span>


--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

 

[Guest]

this was helpful, but is there a way to format the text so that it doesn't
move? I'm trying to make a list (4 lines of text). I play around with the
space bar to get the text lined up how I want, but when I look at it on
another computer the text has moved around. Is there something like a "hard
space" I can use for lack of a better term?

 

[Ronx]

Do not use the space bar - this is not a design tool, and spaces on
different computers display in different sizes, depending on user settings
for fonts etc.

For lists, use the bullets and numbering, and indent tools in the toolbar,
or use tables to align the list items.

 

[Guest]

if only i could do all that in a screentip box.

Do not use the space bar - this is not a design tool, and spaces on
different computers display in different sizes, depending on user settings
for fonts etc.

For lists, use the bullets and numbering, and indent tools in the toolbar,
or use tables to align the list items.

 

[Ronx]

Use a behaviour to display a hidden layer containing the list, and include a
link in the layer to hide it again. You can adapt the DHTML menu at
www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=28 for this.