Rollover Pop-ups

[Greig_at_Lands]

Is there any way of making pop-ups (including text-only) open and close via a mouse rollover rather than relying on them being clicked. My problem is that I am using text-only pop-ups in pages that are already pop-ups and clicking to close the text-only pop-up closes the whole window! My hope is that by using a roll-over the user will still have the original pop-up page when they move away from the text-only pop-up and, also, to make the text-only pop-up appear via a mouse rollover as a click is not necessarily intuitive for the user.

Thanks for your time,
Greig

[MergeThis]

Do a General Discussion forum search on "tooltip" with me as Author. My solution (actually Walter Zorn's JavaScript solution) is not easy, but it gives great results!


Good luck,
Leon

[Captiv8r]

Hi Grieg

In addition to Leon's excellent advice, if you have Captivate at your disposal, you can create rollover popups using it, then insert into topics as needed.

Cheers... Rick

[Greig_at_Lands · Accepted solution]

Thanks very much for the replies. I am going to make this message the solution as there is more than one and I can include them in here.

For simplicity the ideas contained in Peter Grainge's snippets page - http://www.grainge.org/pages/snippets/snippets.htm - under the heading Tooltips are worth considering. Basically storing the pop-up message as Alt text for images or in the <acronym title'"pop-up message in here"> tag for text.

The RoboWizard solution of using Captivate was also a good one but I didn't want to embed swf files into my html. Am I missing anything here Rick? Please explain the idea further if I am.

Leon's solution is more complex and took me a while to work around. As with complex solutions it does offer more flexibility in that the pop-up message text that is to appear can be formatted and images can be included. It makes use of a bit of JavaScript from Walter Zorn - http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm - for displaying tooltips. The tooltips can be kept in another JavaScript file and called by Walter's script. An example of a JavaScript function that can be called by Walter's script is: function tooltip() {return "Type pop-up message in here and include html code such as <B>bold</B>";}. Walter's page provides plenty of examples.

I leave it up to the reader to pick their preferred solution.
Greig