Mouse rollover object text tool tip

Question

Dear All,

I'm new to MS publisher 2010.

I have a web page with few object on it.

What I need to do is any time mouse roll over the object we would like to see a text tool tip pops up wit some text info.

How do we accomplish  that?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Regards,

Ebi

Answer 1

Reference: Using Tool Tips in Publisher Web Publications:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/pages/81254.aspx

Also google Javascript tool tips and look at that approach, such as http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/dhtmltooltip.htm

DavidF

Answer 2

File, Advanced, Display, check Show Screen Tips on Objects.

Answer 3

Hi David,

Yes you are right, the alt="text" method only works with Internet Explorer. I should have mentioned it.

No, I have neither found nor sought a way to make it cross-browser compatible, and I have never tried substituting an image to the text in the <a title=" "> tag suggested by David Bartosik.

Interesting. Although I have always been aware of its existence, this is a tag I have never used.

What I have done, however, is to use (or misuse, if you prefer) a rather elaborate script, originally conceived for a menu, to display an image on mouse-over. For example on my own website:

http://users.beagle.com.au/calamitas/   click on "Introduction" in the menu and drag your mouse over the "Strategy" and "Time Scale" buttons at the top left. I would not recommend this method. I was just being lazy when I did it, and didn't bother to look for simpler ways of doing this.

Remember, I'm still an amateur. LOL

Geoffrey

Answer 4

Hi Geoffrey,

One of the limitations with using the Alt text is that the tool tip will only be seen using IE. If you use FireFox for example, the Alt text is not seen when you mouseover.

Have you ever been able to find a way to make that approach cross browser compatible? Have you ever incorporated the 'title' approach with an image instead of text as David Bartosik describes?

DavidF

Answer 5

In addition to the very helpful suggestions from Mary and David, there is also another way of adding a tool tip.

Providing you are using an HTML fragment to insert images, the standard HTML tag for insertion allows for a tool tip.

The plain insertion tag is:

<img src="name-of-folder-where-image-is-stored/full-name-of-image-file">

Insertion with tool tip is:

<img src="name-of-folder-where-image-is-stored/full-name-of-image-file" ALT="type-the-text-to-be-displayed-on-mouse-over">

Insertion with link and tool tip is:

<a href="full-URL-of -the-link"><img src="name-of-folder-where-image-is-stored/full-name-of-image-file" border=0 ALT="type-the-text-to-be-displayed-on-mouse-over"></a>