"Title" boxes

[Robbie Langton]

I'm trying to create an index page in which the punter can hover the
mouse over an item to see more information. I've done a preliminary
version using:

title=" text to be displayed"

added to the anchor tag of the index item. But the amount of text to
be displayed in the bubble-help type box that appears is quite
substantial and the appearance of the "bubble" is rather bland.

I wondered if there was a CSS way to control the appearance of the
title "bubble"? I tried on online search for information, but the use
of the word "title" for other purposes in CSS makes that rather
difficult. (Try a Google search on "CSS TITLE" and you'll see what I
mean...)

Anyone on here able to enlighten me?

If, as I suspect, the answer is that it can't be done via CSS, any
ideas for doing it in Javascript or PHP?

Cheers,

RObbie

[mscir]

Robbie Langton wrote:
> I'm trying to create an index page in which the punter can hover the

> mouse over an item to see more information... But the amount of text to

> be displayed in the bubble-help type box that appears is quite

> substantial and the appearance of the "bubble" is rather bland. <snip>

If you don't find a CSS solution take a look at these:

http://www.mojavelinux.com/cooker/demos/domTT/example3.html
http://www.dyn-web.com/dhtml/tooltips/tooltip-selects.html
http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/dhtmltooltip.htm
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/popinfo.htm

[Robbie Langton]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:42:05 -0800, mscir <ms...@access4less.net>
wrote:

<snip>

>If you don't find a CSS solution take a look at these:

Thank you very much, mscir. That was extremely helpful. I've now
managed to achieve the effect on screen that I needed. I'd have
preferred a pure CSS solution so that the site could be client
maintainable with a little coaching, but you can't have everything...

Cheers!

RObbie