[thelist] Javascript Timeouts

[Ben Henick]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:

> function hideMenu(menu){
>   setTimeout("document.getElementById(menu).style.visibility = 'hidden'", 2000);
> }
>
> called by the following event handler:
>
> onmouseout="hideMenu('yadaYadaYada')"
>
> When I try to run this, however, IE gives a "'menu' not defined" error. What's
> my problem?

For one, you are not assigning the setTimeout to a variable:

myTimer = window.setTimeout(...);

Meanwhile, the second reference to menu might be causing some
difficulties.

My thought is, re-write the code so that the DHTML statement is in its own
function and see what happens.

Setting the timeout onmouseout rather than onmouseover is a great idea,
too.


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