Mouse over to show a word's definition

leeandmick@bigpond.com · #1 09-26-2008, 09:00 AM

It would be great to be able to 'mouse over' a link and have the definition of that word appear.
My site is www.christianissues.biz

Thanks
Mick

davidundalicia · #2 09-26-2008, 03:41 PM

You could always use the "alternate text" when you set up the link.............

leeandmick@bigpond.com · #3 09-26-2008, 10:44 PM

Thanks for your comment David but I don't know where to find the alternate text option ... when I make a link I don't see it.

Mick

davidundalicia · #4 09-26-2008, 10:48 PM

Ooops, my mistake.....I am so used to image links I forgot that it dosn't appear on textual links.

leeandmick@bigpond.com · #5 09-26-2008, 11:04 PM

Thanks all the same mate.
Mick

DCOFFICESERVICES · #6 09-26-2008, 11:13 PM

You could save the text as an image and then add the alternate text.

Darren

navaldesign · #7 09-27-2008, 07:30 AM

That's a Tooltip, search on Google with this term

leeandmick@bigpond.com · #8 09-27-2008, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DCOFFICESERVICES

You could save the text as an image and then add the alternate text.

Darren

I don't understand how this will work. I would have to insert the image, with the definition, in the page rather than the word that needs defining.

Perhaps I am not understanding you.

Mick

Marincky · #9 09-27-2008, 11:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leeandmick@bigpond.com

I don't understand how this will work. I would have to insert the image, with the definition, in the page rather than the word that needs defining.

Perhaps I am not understanding you.

Mick

Mick, the best tip on this thread was from Naval. Check this out

leeandmick@bigpond.com · #10 09-27-2008, 11:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by navaldesign

That's a Tooltip, search on Google with this term

Thanks mate but if it's not super simple then I get lost. I was hoping that BlueVoda had a drag and drop system for amateurs like me.

Mick

Marincky · #11 09-27-2008, 11:57 PM

Unfortunately there isn't another way of doing this through BV, Darren's way about saving it as an image first won't work as it still doesn't give you the option of puting in the alt tag.

wysiwyg4 · #12 10-24-2008, 07:42 AM

If I understood your question correctly..........

One thing you can do is to

1. download the file (php or html) to your computer using BlueFTP.
2. Open the file in MS notepad
3. Make changes as title="your description"
so it would look like
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com" title="your description"></a>

if you have <img src= , you use title the same way in href="" statement

Try it, it should work

Mouseover on the top left image on
http://www.mywebsiteworkout.com

wolvez · #13 11-21-2008, 01:16 AM

OMG! I wonder why you want your site to functions like a dictionary. Hmm?
There a lots of words that are spelled the same but has a lot of different meaning depending how you use the particular word in a phrase or sentence.

Why don't you just add an Iframe link of a dictionary?

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