> Mousing over class="placemark" causes it to fire as if there was a > mouseover on class="Senate." "placemark" has its own class, separate > from the "senate" class.
This behaviour is actually the way it supposed to be. mouseover and mouseout fire on each entering / exiting of the elements and ever element descendants border. You would want mouseenter and mouseleave to fire *only* on the trigger element, and ignore its descendants. > Click on the Alabama Senate. It will open a scroll within the scroll > on the left, showing Alabama's senator's names. When you mouse over > senator names, the system interprets that as ALSO a mouseover the > "Senate" label at the top. This should not be the case. See above. > In any event, the senator names are, quite literally, great-great- > great-great grandchildren of the "Senate" label. How on earth would > mousing over the gggg grandchild be the same as mousing over its > ascendant 6 generations above? Not sure on the specific details right now, but check http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_mouse.html for an explanation. > Also, if you are on your toes, you will note that the senator names > italicize, but do not turn blue, when you mouseover them. So, it is > somehow (God knows!) getting PART of the class of the gggg > grandchild. The placemark class instructs to not italicize and not > turn blue. So, it does not turn blue (good), but it does italicizes > (bad). Not sure, but I think this is actually because table element does only inherit some css properties. (At least I remember it does so in quirksmode) -- Andrei Eftimie http://eftimie.com +40 758 833 281 Punct http://designpunct.ro
