Textual tooltip Script
Description: Use this script to provide textual information about a link(s)! Move the mouse over certain links, and accompanying text appears on the page describing the link. The text can be HTML based (bold, italic etc).
Demo:
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Welcome to our new look! |
Directions: 
Ok, the directions get a little complicated, so pull up a chair, and read them carefully! It would have been easier if we simply gave you the entire script-with the HTML codes-all at once, but we figured you would want to be able to customize it to fit the layout of your own page, so the below directions keeps that in mind (aren't we considerate)?
Step 1: Insert the below into the <head> section of the page. In it, you'll see the variable "content[]". which stores the HTML text associated with each link (in the above demo, 9 of them, since there are 9 links).
Step 2: Ok, this is where things get a little dirty. Take a look at the above demo. The "structure" of it consists of two parts-1) an area containing the links (in this case, the gray area), and 2) another area used to display the text associated with the links (in this case, the table cell on the very right). Still with me?
The below code contains the first part, where your links should go. Copy and paste it where you wish the links to appear on the page. In the demo, we pasted it into the left table cell.
Moving along, the below code contains the second part, where the text will appear when the mouse moves over each link. Copy and paste it where you wish it to appear on the page (in the above demo, we pasted it into the right table cell):
Having done all that, you now need to do some "tweaking" to both the first and second part. Hang in there.
In the first part, you need to configure the links to your own. You can virtually change everything inside, except for the outer <div> tag. Do not alter that tag in any way! Also, you'll notice that inside each <a> tag, there is a onMouseover event handler, something like the below:
onMouseover="changetext(content[0])"
This command is used to trigger the script to display the appropriate text inside part 2. "content[0]" informs it to display the text stored inside content[0] Change that variable, depending on each link.
That's it. You're done!