replace text except when mouse hovers above it

[Bart Lateur]

I'd like to replace the text content of a subdiv by "...", except when
the mouse is hovering either above it, or above another subdiv of the
same parent. Something like:

<div class="parent">
<span class="name"><a href="#">Name</a></span>:
<span class="message" >This is the text</span>
</div>

div.parent span.message { display: none }
div.parent:afte r { content: "..." }

But then? Ideally I'd like the original message to become visible if the
mouse hovers over the three dots, but I don't think that's possible...
I'd settle for making it visible if it hovers over the name.

I can't make either of these work.

Help?

And, is it possible to select a div if you hover over a child element?
That would be a way around it.

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Bart.

[Daniel =?ISO-8859-15?Q?D=E9chelotte?=]

Bart Lateur a écrit :

I'd like to replace the text content of a subdiv by "...", except when
the mouse is hovering either above it, or above another subdiv of the
same parent. Something like:

<div class="parent">
<span class="name"><a href="#">Name</a></span>:
<span class="message" >This is the text</span>
</div>

div.parent span.message { display: none }
div.parent:afte r { content: "..." }

But then?

Not too bad for a start. How about http://yo.dan.free.fr/tmp/bart.html ?
Not exactly pretty, but close to what you describe (in web browsers and
IE7, probably).
But then, what do you *really* want to achieve? Please provide an URL
with an excerpt of real content, not just "this is the text".

[...]
And, is it possible to select a div if you hover over a child element?
That would be a way around it.

To /select/ a div? Again, what do you want to do? (the big picture)

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Daniel Déchelotte
http://yo.dan.free.fr/