Hi Francky I really like the examples you gave URLs for - I think those solutions will work very well.
And you're right - I need to make sure the links look intuitively different from clickable links. I intended to use cursor: help; in the styling. Thanks again. James On 16/11/06, francky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Ward wrote: > > >I'm wanting to use a technique similar to Eric Meyer's: > > > >http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html > > > >to show an explanation of some technical terms in a site I am building. > > > >My problem is that I want the popup text to be positioned in a > >different div to the anchor to which it is linked. > > > >Does anyone know a way I can do this? > > > >Thanks > > > >James > > > Hi James, > IFAIK, if it really has to be a separate div, then I think css is not > enough and some javascript help is needed. > Can you tell some more why Eric's <span> solution is not enough for your > page? [1] > > Greetings, > francky > > PS: > "Warning" (in case you didn't consider this already) > In some way the 'terms to explain' have to get attention as hoverable > words, otherwise nobody will go there. To give them an underline as a > link will do that, but that can be a bit risky. - To get no confused > visitors at hovering the "explaining pseudo-link / home styled tooltip" > and hovering a normal clickable link, they should be recognisable by a > different styling (for instance: dashed/dotted underline, other mouse > pointer). > > [1] > Pretty much "div-like" styling of the <span> is possible. See also: > > * http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/showathover.htm > * http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/showathover2.htm > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
