how to apply pop-up-text on text?

[legendgod]

What I want to do is what this Xtreme board apply.
When we mouseover the Title of the discuss board, a pop-up-text box will appear and show the general detail of the discuss thread. How to make it?
Also, can the duration be longer?
Thanks a lot.

 

[PWNettle]

The 'usual' or 'normal' HTML way to do this is to give an HTML element a title tag, for ex:

<a href="www.whatever.com" title="click here for whatever>whatever</a>

You can give a title attribute to most HTML elements. For example, this forum adds the title to the TD element that contains the links for threads...so that you see the 'popup' whenever you mouse over any part of the table cell.

The duration is probably based on the browser rendering the html and as far as I know you can't control it. To get longer durations, you'd have to make some kind of custom popup, similar to how javascript/dhtml/layered menu systems are created, etc.

Paul