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[two4god07]

The associate pastor for the church page I'm working on has asked if I could link all the verses on the website to a place where the actual scripture could be read. Now, actually linking the verse address to the verse itself would become very time consuming. I have seen on some sites that when you place your mouse over a word, alt text would come up with information.

I want to make it so that when you mouse over a scripture, a bubble will pop up with the words to the scripture just as if you moused over an image and alt text came up.

How would I go about doing that?

Thank you for your help in advance.

[Fang]

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examp...r/tooltip.html

[felgall]

Just adding title="something" to any tag in your page will make the text (in this instalce "something") appear in a tooltip when you move the mouse over the content of that tag.

The alt attribute in images describes the purpose of the image to those visitors who can't see the image.

[two4god07]

Will title support a large lump of text?

[two4god07]

and... can I put in in a span tag so that I don't have to put the verses on new lines

[Charles]

Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/ .

[Major Payne]

DHTML Mouseover Tooltip
Extended Tooltip
Cool DHTML Tooltip
CSS Tooltip
CSS Tooltip on hover

How to make CSS ToolTips?

[two4god07]

Hey Mr Charles,

are there sites like that for CSS and javascript also?

[Charles]

For CSS : http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/
For JavaScript : http://www.ecma-international.org/pu...s/Ecma-262.htm + http://www.w3.org/DOM/DOMTR (JavaScript = ECMA 262 + W3C DOM)

And most importantly, you'll need the following to know how to safely put it all together : http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/

[two4god07]

I just wanted to be able to look through it all because I always like how my page is layed out on my laptop but it never looks the same on anyone elses computer because most people who see the page are on old desktops. I want the websites to be valid enough that it will look similar no matter what it is being viewed on. Like msn.com is the same on every screen. My pages always get distorted badly when resolution is different.

Thanks for the references.

[Charles]

Web pages are supposed to seem different on different platforms and such. Your job is to make it work well on all of them but you'll have to give up being a control freak. The sites that seem to stay the same, those are often the very worse. They tend to vary very little on graphical browsers but as soon as you try to use a non-graphical one they collapse.