scripting in columns of a table (HTML4) [Archive]

luhfluh

02-06-2007, 12:40 AM

Hello to you all. I'm actually new to HTML coding and sripting, so please bear with me, lol.

I want to find out how to display a message in one column of a table (having two columns) when the mouse is over some text in the other column. In this i would like to use pure HTML and/or Javascript bt not CSS.
Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,

jscheuer1

02-06-2007, 04:04 PM

Why you would want to avoid css style (completely?) is beyond me. Perhaps I have misunderstood though. Css is the best way to style your page, regardless of anything else that you are doing. Here is a demo with absolutely no css:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script type="text/javascript">
function targ_cell(pos, cntnt, cll){
var bcll=cll;
if(pos=='p'){
while(cll=cll.previousSibling)
if(cll.tagName&&cll.tagName.toLowerCase()=='td')
break
}
else{
while(cll=cll.nextSibling)
if(cll.tagName&&cll.tagName.toLowerCase()=='td')
break
}
if(cll&&cll!=bcll&&cll.tagName&&cll.tagName.toLowerCase()=='td')
cll.innerHTML=cntnt;
else alert('No '+(pos=='p'? 'previous' : 'next')+' Cell available in this row!');
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table width="300" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
<tr>
<td width="45%"> </td>
<td width="45%" onmouseover="targ_cell('p', 'Hello!', this);" onmouseout="targ_cell('p', ' ', this);">hi</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="45%" onmouseover="targ_cell('n', 'Goodbye', this);" onmouseout="targ_cell('n', ' ', this);">See ya</td>
<td width="45%"> </td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>