HTML code-bug mouseover problem in page created with Excel.

Susanne

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Jul 22, 2003, 1:19:03 PM7/22/03

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Aloha potential savior.

I decided to make a site with Excel (why is that so funny?), which is
going slow but ok, considering I know very little, but now ran into a
problem: When I integrate a mouseover tag into a cell, it results in
the cells being white upon first load. See for yourself:

http://www.zazam.com/mouseovertest

How do I change the HTML code in order for the cells to start out with
a color instead of white?

Please make me stop ripping out my hair;-)

Phobos

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Jul 22, 2003, 7:24:54 PM7/22/03

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Although this is not an html group...

Where you have code such as:

<td colspan=4 class=xl56 style='border-right:.5pt solid black;cursor:hand'
onmouseout="bgColor='#ff66cc'"
onmouseover="bgColor='#ff0199'">fatherx</td>

You need to specify the bgcolor property to start with:

<td colspan=4 bgcolor=#ff66cc class=xl56 style='border-right:.5pt solid
black;cursor:hand'
onmouseout="bgColor='#ff66cc'"
onmouseover="bgColor='#ff0199'">fatherx</td>

notice the bgcolor attribute after your colspan?

Excel is not really the best tool for creating web-pages...

P

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David McRitchie

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Jul 22, 2003, 9:36:12 PM7/22/03

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Hi Susan,
I like your example web page, and hop you keep it as part of your site
http://www.zazam.com/mouseovertest
you can point to Phobos' answer on your page
with something like.

Solution to above problem was provided in the excel.misc newsgroup
by Phobus on
<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=OWvAXiKU...@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl">2003-07-22</a>.
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> Although this is not an html group...

> [clipped]

Susanne

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Jul 23, 2003, 7:44:25 AM7/23/03

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"Phobos" <laug...@spammers.co.uk> wrote

> Although this is not an html group...

I know... but I had suspected that this was an Excel related problem.

[elegant solution]

> notice the bgcolor attribute after your colspan?

YES! YES! YES! <overthetop voice> thank-you-so-much.

> Excel is not really the best tool for creating web-pages...

But that is the point;-)

Thanks.

Susanne

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Jul 23, 2003, 7:51:42 AM7/23/03

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"David McRitchie" <dmcri...@msn.com>

> Hi Susan,
> I like your example web page, and hop you keep it as part of your site
> http://www.zazam.com/mouseovertest
> you can point to Phobos' answer on your page
> with something like.

Thanks, and yes, that is a very good idea. The actual page will be
under a different domain, and the mouseoversolution will neatly fit
under "Extra". I'll just add a third block with the solution and the
URL. I think my overall page will take another month, it really is a
rather huge project considering I'm a newbie. As for liking my example
page, I'm flattered. I guess I'll post the URL of my page once it's
complete.

Till then!

Greetz/Susanne