ScreenTip length

[Guest]

Does anyone know how to set the length of a hyperlink's screentip? It allows me to type in 255 in most...in some, it only allows me a shorter amount (I am not sure why there is a difference!!). When I save it, is "seems" to save the screentip as-is, but when I close and re-open, the screentips get "cut-down" to to whatever (it seems) is the maximum associated with that hyperlink. this is becoming a big headache!! Can anyone help?

 

[Steve Easton]

If you want larger screen tips, you really should look into a javascript
pop-up type.
1. you can make them almost any size.2
2. screen tips only display for a predetermined time limited by the browser.

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Does anyone know how to set the length of a hyperlink's screentip? It

allows me to type in 255 in most...in some, it only allows me a shorter
amount (I am not sure why there is a difference!!). When I save it, is
"seems" to save the screentip as-is, but when I close and re-open, the
screentips get "cut-down" to to whatever (it seems) is the maximum
associated with that hyperlink. this is becoming a big headache!! Can
anyone help?

 

[chris leeds]

what about an <acronym> tag? ;-)

 

[Steve Easton]

Dang, I keep forgetting about those. Are they supported in all browsers??

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[chris leeds]

I don't know but with a little .css for cursor control they're pretty cool.

 

[Steve Easton]

Off to the "test web" to play with acronyms and CSS.

;-)

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[Jim Carlock]

The acronym tag seems to be NetScape 6.2 and IE 4.

Also, it uses the title="" attribute which would be the similar
to the alt="" for images and the title="" for <a> elements.

The javascript seems like it would be the best way to go.

I think the length of the title="" attribute is determined by
the browser used. Some might have a 255 character limit,
some might truncate it if reaches the edge of the page. I'm
not really sure how different browsers handle it, and I'm
pretty sure that w3 doesn't specify a determinate length.

The information about the browser versions and tags is
available at:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_reference.asp

There is some excellent information available about javascript,
html, xhtml, xml, and most everything associated with the Internet
available at:

http://www.w3schools.com/

Enjoy!

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I don't know but with a little .css for cursor control they're pretty cool.

 

[chris leeds]

there's one or two here:
http://nedp.net/newh/vegas/golf
there isn't much length in the title but the .css is right there on the
style sheet.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help...I figured it out..
It all depends on what you are linking to, and how long the path is for that document/spreadsheet/etc... is
For example, if I am linking to a word document on a shared drive, and I have not yet inserted a screentip, the default screentip will be the actual path (i.e. you see the path pop up in the box when you put your cursor over the link)
Once you actually insert text into the screentip (i.e. "Click here to see..."), the "path" text becomes invisible, BUT the characters in the path COUNT towards the maximum amount of characters you can put in the screentip. So, the longer your path is, the shorter the text of your screentip will be!
Now if only I could figure out tomorrow's lottery numbers...