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there are two library for popup balloons:

• Erik Bosrup's overlib at: http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/

• Walter Zorn from: http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm

however, their code is a bit dense to decipher.

i wanted to know, what is the basic mechanism to make this possible?

Xah
xa*@xahlee.org
∑ http://xahlee.org/

Nov 23 '05 #1
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VK

Xah Lee wrote:
there are two library for popup balloons:
however, their code is a bit dense to decipher.
i wanted to know, what is the basic mechanism to make this possible?


If you want just a basic prompt you do it like this:

<a href="info.html " title="Click for more">More...</a>

For HTML reach popups you creating a <DIV>, beautify it as much as you
want/can and place over elements by mouseover event.

The trick is to locate exact position and size of the element so popup
would appear on the right position. 95% of code volume in all popup
scripts is for the latter (popup position calculation).

Nov 23 '05 #2

VK wrote:
Xah Lee wrote:
there are two library for popup balloons:
however, their code is a bit dense to decipher.
i wanted to know, what is the basic mechanism to make this possible?
For HTML reach popups you creating a <DIV>, beautify it as much as you
want/can and place over elements by mouseover event.

The trick is to locate exact position and size of the element so popup
would appear on the right position. 95% of code volume in all popup
scripts is for the latter (popup position calculation).


Thanks a lot for this tip! It answered my question exactly.

Is it possible to give a slight more detail? I know CSS1 well. I
vaguely recall positioning and overlaying is a CSS2 feature?

Xah
xa*@xahlee.org
∑ http://xahlee.org/

Nov 23 '05 #3
Xah Lee wrote:
VK wrote:
Xah Lee wrote:
there are two library for popup balloons:
however, their code is a bit dense to decipher.
i wanted to know, what is the basic mechanism to make this possible?


For HTML reach popups you creating a <DIV>, beautify it as much as you
want/can and place over elements by mouseover event.

The trick is to locate exact position and size of the element so popup
would appear on the right position. 95% of code volume in all popup
scripts is for the latter (popup position calculation).

Thanks a lot for this tip! It answered my question exactly.

Is it possible to give a slight more detail? I know CSS1 well. I
vaguely recall positioning and overlaying is a CSS2 feature?


Search this group's archives for 'tooltip'. CSS stuff is better asked
in a CSS forum such as comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets (ciwas).

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Rob
Nov 23 '05 #4

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