jayson Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 ok, before you all jump to cnclusions it is not what you think, I have a site for my son, and on it is a family tree, I want a popup that will work with the exting format. but not really a click on link popup, I want one that as you scroll the mouse over the text, a info window shows, then as you move the mouse off the text, the window goes away. I have spent a better part of about 15 hours since sunday looking and trying scripts, but none are what I want. To see the format I have go to Family Tree it will give you an idea, I got one such script to work, but once I added the imagemap the script stopped working. This has frustrated me to no end, can someone please help.. Thanks Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 You can use the acronym html tag to produce that effect. ><acronym title="what ever you want to say in the popup">text to popup text</acronym> Edit: well if I paid attention and noticed you are trying to add hotspots to an image that pop up I would not have suggested what I did. Maybe you can find something at dynamicdrive.com that will work with image hot spots. Quote
Deverill Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 You can do it with CSS also. Eric Meyer has a bit about it on his site. (The menu on the left is a working example.) Quote
jayson Posted December 14, 2005 Author Posted December 14, 2005 You can do it with CSS also. Eric Meyer has a bit about it on his site. (The menu on the left is a working example.) forgot to mention, what I need to popup is a picture Quote
Deverill Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 Check the link - it does pop pictures (icons more precisely). Quote
jayson Posted December 14, 2005 Author Posted December 14, 2005 Check the link - it does pop pictures (icons more precisely). Ok, I think I solved the problem, I did one example, can I get an opion on it. family tree test Thanks Quote
stevevan Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 Looks like it does what you were wanting it to do. However, the picture blocks out the name. Personal preference, I'd like to see the picture and the full name too! Quote
Sarah Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 Hmm.... I'm not seeing it do anything... Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 Hmm.... I'm not seeing it do anything... You are probably viewing it with IE. It does work in Firefox. Quote
jayson Posted December 14, 2005 Author Posted December 14, 2005 (edited) Ok, I think I solved the problem, I did one example, can I get an opion on it. family tree test Thanks suppose I could put the picture above the name ok, the picture now is above the name, does that look ok? ok, now got another problem to deal with, well back to the drawing board Edited December 14, 2005 by jayson Quote
jayson Posted December 14, 2005 Author Posted December 14, 2005 (edited) You are probably viewing it with IE. It does work in Firefox. I just loaded the orginal page ( the link is on here) and IE works there, now got to figure out why it will not work for me Eric Meyer has a bit about it on his site. (The menu on the left is a working example.) Edited December 14, 2005 by jayson Quote
jayson Posted December 14, 2005 Author Posted December 14, 2005 I just loaded the orginal page ( the link is on here) and IE works there, now got to figure out why it will not work for me Eric Meyer has a bit about it on his site. (The menu on the left is a working example.) Replying to my post instead of doing an edit, ok, got the IE problem fixed, except for one small problem, can not get the background url to fit in all the screen, works fine in FF. but no matter what I do the image will not all fit in a IE window suggestions? Quote
abinidi Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 jayson, I'm not sure what your message means. I tried your site, and the mouse over doesn't work for me at all in IE. I'm not sure what you are talking about in terms of a background image. Sorry. Can you clarify please? Quote
jayson Posted December 14, 2005 Author Posted December 14, 2005 jayson, I'm not sure what your message means. I tried your site, and the mouse over doesn't work for me at all in IE. I'm not sure what you are talking about in terms of a background image. Sorry. Can you clarify please? ok, there are 2 problems, 1] compare the baxckground of family tree between FF and IE, notice that the background in IE dissapears at the bottom 2] then compare the rollover link between IE and FF, if IE it is where I want it to be, but in FF it is to far down and to the left, is there a code to make it work in both FF and IE... thanks maybe I should just give up Quote
abinidi Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 Oh. Gotcha. For some reason, I was seeing somethign different before in IE. Maybe an earlier version somehow. Sorry I can't help. I looked at the code, and I'm not sure what's not working. However, I'm not a CSS coder. I find tables easier to use for positioning. I'm sure somebody who is a CSS aficionado will know what to do. Quote
stevevan Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 When I look at it in FF, it is down and to the right...not left. Not really being a coder, but I wonder if maybe something could be done in CSS that might make the background and such work. Then enter something in the code of the page that would place the name and pic. Just a tho't! Quote
GroovyFish Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 Hi Jayson, I just thought I would pass this along, it might be something to help you with your family tree. A different way of doing it. I am thinking small images in the tree itself, and then when you highlight over them, a larger image and some text to the side. Now, there are no instructions, but if you look at the source, it doesn't look TOO difficult to figure out. (there is no copyright associated with this code, so you can "steal" it) http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/old_master.html Quote
jayson Posted December 14, 2005 Author Posted December 14, 2005 When I look at it in FF, it is down and to the right...not left. Not really being a coder, but I wonder if maybe something could be done in CSS that might make the background and such work. Then enter something in the code of the page that would place the name and pic. Just a tho't! sorry, I meant to the right.. been up since 6:00 am so a bit tired I will try ti get this worked out, thanks for all the great suggestions and help Quote
jayson Posted December 15, 2005 Author Posted December 15, 2005 well after 17 hours of rewriting the script, I finally ( I think) got it to do what I wanted it to do. could I impose upon you fine people to look at it one more time...... I still got a lot of tweeking to do, but for the better part it is like I want it to be, the whole file is created with a .CSS form family tree I do believe it works now in FF and IE. Quote
abinidi Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 Seems to be working fine for me. Same behavior in both browsers. I wonder if this was really worth 17 hours?! I almost guarantee you that long before hour 17 I would have given up and said "there's got to be an easier way to do this using tables/layers...." Congratulations on workign it out! Quote
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