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moondog -> information pop ups on webpages (10/17/2006 15:47:00)

I was wanting to make an interactive map that I can put up on a webpage. I want to make it so that when I hover over a spot, Information will pop up in a little box like on many other webpages. (Example: when I hover over the B for bold button a little box pops-up that says "Bold.")

basically what i want to do is put a map on a page that has cities, production, gold values and when I hover over a city i'd like an info box to pop up that has the name, production, gold values in the "pop up". does this make more sense?

Is this just a simple rollover or CSS or is there something I'm missing?

I already posted this in the Beginner's Forum, but the response so far wasn't that helpful and it occured to me that this might be a CSS thing.

dog



jaybee -> RE: information pop ups on webpages (10/17/2006 16:26:00)

Your example is a tooltip. In theory you could do that but in practice I suspect you want too much in the box. Although it holds a lot, some of the browsers only show 50 characters.

Your other option is a css pop-up but it depends how many you want on this map as to how complicated the whole page is going to get. Positioning them will be a nightmare.

http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/css%20pop%20ups/default.asp shows you how but good luck. Most of the maps that do that sort of thing are Flash based.

You may also find something of use in javascript try Dynamic Drive.



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