I have an image and want the user to be able to point to various parts of the image and see a tooltip with info relating to that particular part of the image.

The way I'm going about this is simly to create a hotspot on the image in Dreamweaver and then give the hotspot a title attribute with the info I need. This works OK, except for the fact that the tooltip only appears for a couple of seconds.

Is there a way to alter how long it appears for?
Or is there a different (but easy!) way to do this?

Here's an e.g.
http://www.mymusictheory.com/hotspot-test.html

If you point at note no.4 you should see a tool tip, but it disappears too quickly!

The method can be achieved with Java I believe - try googling Java Hotspots or Ajax Hotspots

@Xboxer360 javascript NOT Java they are totally different animals.

For Vicky
Javascript "tooltips"

Fair enough was a pretty harsh way of saying though.

^^ yeah i knew that!

Thanks Chris - I will go and get a coffee!

Originally Posted by Xboxer360

Fair enough was a pretty harsh way of saying though.

I'm from Yorkshire,

We don't do subtle

I'm from Yorkshire

Your avatar pic is gravely misleading then...
This is a yorkshire.


Yeah, yeah, I know where the door is.
:-D

Well I've been down the list & still can't find anything that I understand & that works on image hotspots!

Is it the same method as what Bing.com uses on there search page?

Originally Posted by tripy

Your avatar pic is gravely misleading then...
This is a yorkshire.

Nahh! that's a hairy rat on a string

Originally Posted by Xboxer360

Is it the same method as what Bing.com uses on there search page?

I never use Bing but I just went and had a look - Yes that would work but how do they do it?


I'm beginning to think I'll probably try to do it in Flash instead. I only know very basic stuff about javascript and nothing about ajax and don't really want a load of bulky code in the page.

Chris since when was Blackpool in Yorkshire?!

Chris since when was Blackpool in Yorkshire?!

Bit like yourself I just live in Foreign territory

You could also try this technique - all css

http://designreviver.com/tutorials/c...and-tutorials/

howto.com/effects/css-image-maps-with-pop-up-tool-tips/