[Javascript] Re: Linked text in layers onMouseOver

Cutter (javascript list) javascript at theblades-family.com
Tue Sep 3 07:57:09 CDT 2002


You may have to code this several different ways for the different browsers. 
IE does not support layers, and you would probably be better off placing 
your dynamic content in a div tag instead of an anchor tag... 

Cutter 

Pietro Carubbi writes: 

> Hallo, 
> 
> I have some images, that, onMouseOver, let appear texts within layers. 
> 
> I want these texts displayed in the layers contain images and links, but...
> I receive an 'unknown run-time error' from IE. 
> 
> The page is built so: 
> 
> 1) In the HEAD I have: 
> 
> <SCRIPT language=JavaScript>
> var description = new Array();
> description[1] = "<a href=\"http://www.url.com\"><b>Linked Text</b></a>";
> description[2] = "etc";
> description[3] = "etc";
> description[4] = "etc";
> description[5] = "etc";
> description[6] = "etc";
> description[7] = "etc";
> description[8] = "etc";
> </SCRIPT> 
> 
> 2) In the BODY I have this kind of tables where the layers are contained: 
> 
> <TD height=104 vAlign=top width=320><A id=layerName1></A></TD> 
> 
> 3) There are then the images, that, onMouseOver, have to display the
> descriptions (1) in the layers (2): 
> 
> <A href="..." onmouseover="layerName1.innerHTML = description[1];"><IMG
> src="..."></A> 
> 
> 
> How do I have to optimize this code? What is wrong in the HEAD's description
> strings??? 
> 
> Thank you in advance, 
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Pietro 
> 
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