onmouseover in option

[levtannen]

Hello everybody,
I want to use the onmouseover commentd inside the option tag.

[HTML]<select name="select" size="4" style="font-family: tahoma;font-size:8pt;" multiple >
<option onmouseover="process();" onmouseout="return clear();" value="some value">
some text
</option>
</select>[/HTML]

It works with FireFox, but does not work with IE and with Google Chrome. Do you know why. Is there any work around?

Thank you,
Lev Tannen

[zaphod42]

The answer is in this link..... Google Search for html onmouseover....notice how it's spelled

[Rsmastermind]

Sorry But I really do not understand the meaning of the line "onmouseover commentd " What you want to do? is not telling your code instead that you want to use the events onmouseover and onmouseout.

Basically these are two events on which you can call your functions but what is inside that function that we have to look .As these two handlers are supported by every browser so this is not the case of the your problem better you should post the code of the function "process".

[zaphod42]

the problem is in the case of the characters he is using in his html tag....regardless of how his functions work, onmouseover is supposed to be "onMouseOver" inside of html tags

[acoder]

No, it would work fine as onmouseover too. The problem is that IE doesn't support these events for options. In fact, options are regarded as part of a select and not elements in their own right. I'm not sure about Chrome though.

[Rsmastermind]

the problem is in the case of the characters he is using in his html tag....regardless of how his functions work, onmouseover is supposed to be "onMouseOver" inside of html tags

Can you please tell me where you have found that the event onmouseover is not getting fired instead of onMouseOver event.The solution reason given by the acoder is correct.

[levtannen]

No, it would work fine as onmouseover too. The problem is that IE doesn't support these events for options. In fact, options are regarded as part of a select and not elements in their own right. I'm not sure about Chrome though.

[quote=levtannen]Yes, you are right. But the question remains, is there a way around?

[acoder]

Firstly, what does process() and clear() do?

Based on your requirements and forced by browsers failing to recognise options properly, you may have no choice but to go with something like this - a replacement DHTML select.