| Here a Flash Version of Tooltips.
When the HTML tag "alt=" doesn't relay the
information you'd like it to, Flash tooltips let you to give your
users more detailed descriptions. Note:
Flash tooltips work only with Internet
Explorer browsers, Netscape will have no tooltip effect.
Here
is an example of how it works (Mouse Over Me!).
To Install Flash tooltips:
*Pick the tooltips background color and click
the "Create!" button.
A new window will open. From the new window:
*Download the Flash file and save it as tt4.swf
in the same directory as the page(s) that the Flash tooltips will appear
on.
*Copy the 3 areas of generated code and paste
into your page(s) i.e. HTML document(s) as directed and as follows:
1) Between the <head> - </head> tags.
2) In the <body> tag.
3) Right after the <body> tag.
*Enter the
content for each tooltip. There are 2 areas - the title area, and the
content area. Replace ENTER
YOUR TOOLTIP TITLE HERE
& ENTER YOUR TOOLTIP
CONTENT HERE with your
title and content, see Example 1:
Example 1 :
*To
trigger a tooltip that is a hyperlink, insert the onMouseover and onMouseout
properties from example 1 inside the hyperlink tags (<a...
- </a>) as in Example
2:
Example 2 :
Replace http://PAGE TO LINK . TO/page.htm
With the URL of the page to link to.
Replace TEXT FOR LINK With the text
to click on for the link.
*To use an Image for a link:
Replace TEXT FOR LINK With
the source of the image
<img src="http://YOUR
IMAGE.file" border="0"
width="88"
height="31">
as in Example 3:
Example 3 :
*To assign a tooltip to text or an image that is not a link, use a tag "javascript:void(0)"
as
in Example 4:
Example 4 :
*You may copy the above examples and replace the
content areas, link URL's and TEXT FOR LINK or "<img src=...>"
with your own.
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