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Robert Member 
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Could you tell me what controls the amount of time that the text is visible in the mouseover? It seems rather short if one is to take full advantage of this great facility.
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Di Customer Service Rep. 
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Robert wrote: Could you tell me what controls the amount of time that the text is visible in the mouseover? It seems rather short if one is to take full advantage of this great facility. are you talking about the mouseover menu? if you keep your cursor on it, it wont disappear until you move your mouse away from it which gives you time to do what you need to do -- type in the search box or click the options on the menu anyway, i believe its all in the code but im sure Jim can elaborate even more on it 
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Robert Member
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No Di, I'm referring to the mouseover text that you can write in the side bar menu so that when your mouse hovers over a picture the text shows. It's great for describing what the photograph is about.
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Jim Administrator 
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That is actually a windows/browser function and has nothing to do with the code or the board. It is reading the alt= text if present.
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martin_wynne Licence Holder 
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Jim wrote: That is actually a windows/browser function and has nothing to do with the code or the board. It is reading the alt= text if present. Hi Jim, Actually it is title="text". Only IE (incorrectly) uses the alt text as a tooltip if no title is present. Here's a very clever way to do it entirely in css: http://psacake.com/web/jl.asp Add the CSS given there, then use:
Robert, the text then appears for as long as the mouse remains over the picture. You need to edit the CSS file directly for this to work, I don't think you can do it in the theme editor. Martin.
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Robert Member
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Yes I have had a look at the picture and text I have entered and it does say alt="" and then title="whatever". Is there such a thing as a time thingy I can put in after the alt="" to keep the text visible for a longer period. Or am I just wishing?
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martin_wynne Licence Holder
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Robert wrote: Yes I have had a look at the picture and text I have entered and it does say alt="" and then title="whatever". Is there such a thing as a time thingy I can put in after the alt="" to keep the text visible for a longer period. Or am I just wishing? Hi Bob, The tool-tip time-out is set in the user's browser, so there's not much you can do about that without getting into some heavy programming. As an alternative, I've implemented the css code I mentioned in my previous message. It seems to work well. To see an example, go to http://85a.co.uk and run the mouse pointer over the picture. It has the additional advantage over a normal tool-tip in that you can set colours, borders, font size, etc. To go further than this you need to implement Javascript pop-ups, which is much more complicated. You won't be able to do this until you have the full board, because it means editing the css file. cheers, Martin.
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Robert Member
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That's very nifty Martin and I will definitely get back to you on that one once I get settled in with my forum. I can see that I'm going to have to make a list of things I want to know.
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