Determine table cell image resides in

[midwesthills]

Here's what I'm trying to do:

When a user hovers the mouse over an image, I want the background of
the table cell it resides in to change color.

I know how to use the onMouseOver event to detect when the mouse is
hovering over the image, and how to change the background property of
a table cell.

My questions:

How do I address the table cell that contains the image?

Thanks in advance for the help!!!

[CarettaCare]

hi,
this should work..

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<TABLE id="Table1">
<TR>
<TD><IMG src="abc.jpg"
onmouseover="this.parentElement.bgColor='black';"> </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
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"midwesthills" <mi**********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1f**************************@posting.google.c om...

Here's what I'm trying to do:

When a user hovers the mouse over an image, I want the background of
the table cell it resides in to change color.

I know how to use the onMouseOver event to detect when the mouse is
hovering over the image, and how to change the background property of
a table cell.

My questions:

How do I address the table cell that contains the image?

Thanks in advance for the help!!!

[Randy Webb]

midwesthills wrote:

Here's what I'm trying to do:

When a user hovers the mouse over an image, I want the background of
the table cell it resides in to change color.

I know how to use the onMouseOver event to detect when the mouse is
hovering over the image, and how to change the background property of
a table cell.

My questions:

How do I address the table cell that contains the image?

Thanks in advance for the help!!!

<td onmouseover="something()" onmouseout="somethingElse()">.........</td>

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[Michael Winter]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:32:04 +0300, CarettaCare
<ca***************@HEREyahoo.com> wrote:

this should work..

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<TABLE id="Table1">
<TR>
<TD><IMG src="abc.jpg"
onmouseover="this.parentElement.bgColor='black';"> </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
--------------

In Internet Explorer, yes, but in most other browsers it will cause an
error. It would also be better to use the style object (after testing for
it). The bgColor property, along with the bgcolor HTML attribute, is
deprecated in favour of style sheets.

See Randy's post for a simple solution. If the table cell is much larger
than the image, you can check the target/srcElement of the event object
for an image.

[snip]

Mike
Please don't top-post.

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