Popup Window on this Site

[Stephen Horrillo]

What is the script that they use on this site to pop up that little info
window. I looked at the source but it must be server side.

Warmest regards,

Steve Horrillo
http://stephenhorrillo.com

 

[David Dorward]

What is the script that they use on this site

On what site?

to pop up that little info
window. I looked at the source but it must be server side.

Server side code can only deliver client side code to the client. It can't
create a popup on the client directly.

 

[Stephen Horrillo]

On developersdex.com. The very reply that you are reading. For example
when I type the word "server", it get's hyperlinked and if you hover the
mouse over it it gives you a definition of the word. In other words I
want a little box to pop up further explaining a particulr word in more
depth when someone hovers their pointer over it. What sort of script
will accomplish this and where do I find it?

Warmest regards,

Steve Horrillo
http://stephenhorrillo.com

 

[Richard Cornford]

On developersdex.com.

That is a strange assertion to make without context.

The very reply that you are reading.

The reply I was reading, and very probably David and most others too, is
a text/plain Usenet Post. comp.lang.javascirpt is a plain-text only
newsgroup.

For example when I type the word "server",
it get's hyperlinked and if you hover the
mouse over it it gives you a definition of the word.
In other words I want a little box to pop up further
explaining a particulr word in more depth when someone
hovers their pointer over it. What sort of script will
accomplish this

That sounds like the use of the TITLE attribute in HTML, so nothing to
do with javascript.

and where do I find it?

In the HTML page's source code, wherever that is.

Richard.

 

[Lee]

Stephen Horrillo said:

On developersdex.com. The very reply that you are reading.

Most of us reading your post have never been to developersdex.com.
Apparently it's one of many, many ways of reading and posting
messages to USENET. It seems to be a pretty poor one, if they
don't make it easy for you to quote the relevent part of the
message you're replying to.

In other words I
want a little box to pop up further explaining a particulr word in more
depth when someone hovers their pointer over it. What sort of script
will accomplish this and where do I find it?

That can be done in <span title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</span> in
modern browsers.

 

[David Dorward]

Stephen Horrillo wrote:

Are you responding to something? http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
(Section 3.1.1, item 10 (starting If you are sending a reply).

On developersdex.com. The very reply that you are reading.

I'm using nntp://news.demon.co.uk to read this reply. Web interfaces to
Usenet are invariably icky to one degree or another.

For example when I type the word "server", it get's hyperlinked and if you
hover the mouse over it it gives you a definition of the word.

<dfn title="Definition of foo">foo</dfn>
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.2.1