Showing hidden answer when question clicked?

[John]

Re: Showing hidden answer when question clicked?

Nigel,

It won't work for ALL your visitors, but for people who have browsers
that display the ALT text when you move over an image, you could try
the ALT= tag for an image.

<a href="answerURL " target="new"><i mg src="answer.gif " height="20"
width="48" alt="The first letter of the alphabet is A" border="0"></a>

You would want to have the answer available at the "answerURL" address
in case the user has a browser that does not display the ALT image. The
top of your page could tell the user to move their mouse over the word
"Answer" to see the answer, and add (if you don't see the answer, click
there).

Since you'd re-use the "answer.gif " every place you need it, the image
wouldn't add lots of code to your page.

I'm sure there are many other methods you can use to accomplish your
purpose, like using OnMouseOver or OnClick.

Look at http://www.godloveseveryone.org/

Move your mouse over the "Get Out of Hell Free" card and you'll see an
ALT message (if you are using a compatible browser), and if you click
the image, you get an Alert message, if Javascript is active. (Just
now, I saw the ALT text on IE but not on MF, but I did see the alert
message on both.)

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[Els]

Re: Showing hidden answer when question clicked?

John wrote:
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> It won't work for ALL your visitors, but for people who have browsers
> that display the ALT text when you move over an image, you could try
> the ALT= tag for an image.[/color]

That's not what alt text is for. IE uses it when the appropriate title
attribute is missing. To have a tooltip on all graphical browsers, use
title, not alt. The alt attribute is to be added on /all/ images, but
is for display if for whatever reason the image cannot be displayed.
(leave it empty on purely decorative images, as the alt text wouldn't
add any value there)

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[John]

Re: Showing hidden answer when question clicked?

Thanks, Els,

Using "Title=" instead of "Alt=" means that Mozilla Firefox now
displays part of the title text when I move the mouse over the image.

Interestingly, though, Firefox only displays one line (19 words) of the
title text, while MIE displays it as a paragraph.

In any case, it is an HTML only method of displaying short answers that
the original questioner asked about. I went ahead and created a small
page illustrating my very simple method:

Look here: http://www.mazes.com/testing/q-and-a.htm

Hope this is helpful to a few people. (I know it is much simpler than
most people in this group use).

John
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[Els]

Re: Showing hidden answer when question clicked?

John wrote:
[color=blue]
> Thanks, Els,
>
> Using "Title=" instead of "Alt=" means that Mozilla Firefox now
> displays part of the title text when I move the mouse over the image.
>
> Interestingly, though, Firefox only displays one line (19 words) of the
> title text, while MIE displays it as a paragraph.
>
> In any case, it is an HTML only method of displaying short answers that
> the original questioner asked about.[/color]

IIRC, a tooltip also isn't displayed long enough to be read properly
by everyone, and it's also a rather small font type. So, even though
it seems to be an HTML way, it isn't really. I mean - it's HTML
alright, but it's not a good method of displaying short answers. IMO a
tooltip needs to be only an extra. Not something one should have to
count on.
[color=blue]
> I went ahead and created a small
> page illustrating my very simple method:
>
> Look here: http://www.mazes.com/testing/q-and-a.htm[/color]

<whisper>Psss t! You forgot the alt attribute on the images!</> ;-)
[color=blue]
> Hope this is helpful to a few people. (I know it is much simpler than
> most people in this group use).[/color]

The tooltip could be done in pure CSS, which would provide a larger
font, a larger box, and it stays as long as the mouse is hovering over
the image, but it still wouldn't be a real solution, as not
everybody's browser will display it, and the answer to the question is
not exactly something I'd call a 'nice to have' on the site :-)

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