Script problem with Netscape 7

Phil

Hello all !

I need help with this script :
It's a tooltip appearing onMouseOver on a link. It works fine in IE, Opera
but not Netscape 7 and Mozilla 1.5.
The tooltip sticks on the top left corner of the window.

Any help appreciated :-)

Thanks

=============== =============== ====
<script language="JavaS cript" type="text/JavaScript">

</script>
</head>

<body>
<div id="toolTipLaye r" style="position :absolute; visibility: hidden"></div>

<script language="JavaS cript">

</script>

<p>
<a href="javascrip t:;"
onMouseOver="to olTip('0','0',' TEXT','#000000' ,'#FFFFFF','Ari al, Helvetica,
sans-serif','2')" onMouseOut="too lTip()">Test 1</a>
</p>

Jul 20 '05 #1

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Lasse Reichstein Nielsen

"Phil" <pa*******@pasd email.com> writes:

Hello all !

I need help with this script :
It's a tooltip appearing onMouseOver on a link. It works fine in IE, Opera
but not Netscape 7 and Mozilla 1.5.
The tooltip sticks on the top left corner of the window.

Any help appreciated :-) <script language="JavaS cript" type="text/JavaScript">
The language attribut can be omitted
<!--
and so can this.

function initToolTips(){
offsetX = 0;
offsetY = 15;
ns4 = document.layers ;
ns6 = document.getEle mentById && !document.all;
ie4 = document.all;
These five variables are global, and are used as such. I would
declare them outside the function to signal this.

Your variables suggests that only ie4 has a document.all property.
That is not true. Generally, browser detection is not a very stable
way of making the script compatible with other browsers.

Where does the values of the variables "offsetX" and "offsetY" come
from?
toolTipSTYLE="" ;
Since this variable is used to hold an object, I would initialize it
with null instead of the empty string.

All in all, I would use the following code instead:
---
var offsetX = 0;
var offsetY = 15;
var toolTipStyle;

function initToolTip() {
var toolTipElem;
if (document.getEl ementById) {
toolTipElem = document.getEle mentById("toolT ipLayer");
} else if (document.all) {
toolTipElem = document.all["toolTipLay er"];
} else if (document.layer s) {
toolTipElem = document.layers["toolTipLay er"];
}
if (!toolTipElem) {return;} // something wrong.
toolTipStyle = toolTipElem.sty le || toolTipElem;

toolTipStyle.vi sibility = "visible";
toolTipStyle.di splay = "none";

// listen to mouse move event
if (document.addEv entListener) {
document.addEve ntListener("mou semove",moveToM ouseLoc,false);
} else if (document.attac hEvent) {
document.attach Event("onmousem ove",function() {
moveToMouseLoc( window.event);
});
} else {
document.onmous emove = moveToMouseLoc;
}
if (document.captu reEvents && window.Event &&
window.Event.MO USEMOVE) {
document.captur eEvents(window. Event.MOUSEMOVE );
}
}
---
function moveToMouseLoc( e) {

if(ns4 || ns6) {
Here you assume something about the event from your guess at the
browser. If the guess is wrong, so is the result. That should not
be a problem for NS7/Mozilla, though.
x = e.pageX; y = e.pageY;
Make variables local if possible.
} else {
x = event.x + document.body.s crollLeft;
y = event.y + document.body.s crollTop;
If the browser is in standards mode (which all new pages *should* put
it), the scroll{Top,Left } values are placed on document.docume ntElement,
not document.body.
}
toolTipSTYLE.le ft = x + offsetX;
Probable cause of problem: You assign a CSS length without a unit. You
*must* add a unit, probably pixels ("px").
toolTipSTYLE.to p = y + offsetY;
return true;
}
My suggested function
---
function moveToMouseLoc( event) {
var x,y;
if (typeof event.pageX == "number") {
x = event.pageX;
y = event.pageY;
} else {
var root = document.docume ntElement||docu ment.body;
var x = event.clientX + root.scrollLeft ;
var y = event.clientY + root.scrollTop;
}
toolTipStyle.le ft = (x+offsetX)+"px ";
toolTipStyle.to p = (y+offsetY)+"px ";
}
---

<script language="JavaS cript">
The *type* attribute is required in HTML 4.
Does your page validate?
<a href="javascrip t:;"

Avoid javascript:-URL's.
<URL:http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_24>

/L
--
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen - lr*@hotpop.com
DHTML Death Colors: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/rasterTriangleD OM.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

Jul 20 '05 #2

Phil

> Does your page validate?

Don't think so :-)
In fact the whole code is a snippet coming from Dreamweaver...
I made some arrangements with global variables, because I can't have them
'global' for a future use

I will review all that.
Thanks a lot for your help and suggestions.

Jul 20 '05 #3

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