I want to display a text when somebody hover's over the row of the
table. The data in the table row itself shouldn't be modified.

I want something like the ABBR and ACRONYM tags which displays text
when you rollover mouse over some text.

Does anyone know how this can be achieved with HTML/CSS/Javascript?

"Rushi" <rushi.v@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I want to display a text when somebody hover's over the row of the
> table. The data in the table row itself shouldn't be modified.[/color]

If that would be essential, then you have a wrong approach. There is no
way to guarantee that anything will be displayed on hover. (And not
just because that there is no guarantee that the page will be
experienced visually at all.)
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> I want something like the ABBR and ACRONYM tags which displays text
> when you rollover mouse over some text.[/color]

The reason you might sometimes see a text pop up on mouseover is not
the use of this or that tag but the use of a TITLE attribute. Browsers
support it roughly speaking either in all elements or in no element.
(The ABBR element might appear to be an exception since a TITLE on it
has no effect on IE; but that's just because IE refuses to recognize
ABBR at all.)

So in that sense you could use <tr title="Hello world">. But what do
you really wish to accomplish? Is it sufficient that some users might
see "Hello world" if they accidentally move the pointer over the row?

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"Rushi" <rushi.v@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1111315580.618540.57700@l41g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...[color=blue]
> I want to display a text when somebody hover's over the row of the
> table. The data in the table row itself shouldn't be modified.
>
> I want something like the ABBR and ACRONYM tags which displays text
> when you rollover mouse over some text.
>
> Does anyone know how this can be achieved with HTML/CSS/Javascript?[/color]

This isn't exactly what you asked for but it might give you some ideas, see
below:
Good Luck,
me

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