[thelist] "Hover-overs"

[ben morrison]

On 8/18/06, Rob Smith <rob.smith at lexjet.com> wrote:
> I've had two requests this past week to see if it could be done, but I'm
> thing to come up with a clever easy way without using Flash. The request
> is to take an image and when you hover your mouse over a certain area, a
> popup dialog comes up and gives a short description of the area you're
> performing the hover-over. My initial comment would be to simply add an
> image map-with nonclickable regions, filling the tool tip with the
> description at hand. That seems like it'll work but you only have 5
> seconds to read it despite the fact that it's in a crummy little
> non-customizable yellow box.


There's a few CSS examples around, heres a starter:

http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/imap.html

Ben