Set bgColor

[barski]

Can someone explain why this doesn't work.

 

on a button I have this

onmouseover="hovereffect(this)"

 

 

function hovereffect(srcElement){

 

srcElement.bgcolor = "#ffffff"

}

 

It worked fine when I used it on tablecells but it doesn't work when I use it on a button.

[bungpeng]

I think the button does not have "onMouseOver" event, if you change to "onClick" event, it definitely work right?

[barski]

I added the onmouseover event to the attributes and it works because if I put in an alert box instead of bgcolor it fires. It has something to do with the color.

[Derek Stone]

<input type="button" onmouseover="this.style.background='red'" />

[barski]

that did it. thanks. So the button doesn't have a bgcolor you use background instead

[Robby]

In Styles it's background in control attributes it's bgcolor.

[Derek Stone]

The attribute "bgcolor" is by in large a deprecated descriptor. It shouldn't be used if you are at all concerned with XHTML/CSS conformant sites.

[bungpeng]

The attribute "bgcolor" is by in large a deprecated descriptor. It shouldn't be used if you are at all concerned with XHTML/CSS conformant sites.

 

What is it mean?

[Robby]

Most control attributes do not conform to XHTML/CSS, if it exists in Styles then go that route.

 

Details: http://www.w3schools.com/site/site_w3c.asp

 

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