ShoelessNet — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 05:36:01 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Suzanne
Peter, I'm surprised at your response...

He was referring to the periods, not the quotation marks.

I agree - and the webmasterforums.com does indeed have that code, it's for the side navigation and it changes the background color of each link onmouseover. Such a thing could be handled in CSS rather than javascript, but to each his own.

Tiffany

jag5311 — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:44:10 +0000

Thanks, that clears a few things up.

Bryan

Suzanne — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 18:37:14 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by pmj7
Is webmasterforums.com a typo? Neither this site, nor the one you list has the code you describe. '"' are called quotes, not periods.

Peter, I'm surprised at your response...

He was referring to the periods, not the quotation marks.

dk01 — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:54:03 +0000

.this.style.backgroundcolor=""

should actually be

this.style.backgroundcolor="";

"this" - the current element on the page, in your case its a tr.
"style" - the object of style refers to the css properties of the element "this". So "this.style" gets all of the css properties of the element .
"backgroundColor" this is the property of the background color.

The periods between all the objects just show that you are becoming more specific. (Starting off with all the properties of the object -> going to just the css properties -> going to just the backgroundColor css property.

Hope that helps. Sorry its not so clear.

-dk

pmj7 — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:22:40 +0000

Is webmasterforums.com a typo? Neither this site, nor the one you list has the code you describe. '"' are called quotes, not periods.

I'd suggest you visit http://www.irt.org and read up on JavaScript, they probably have something on menus there. You should never rely on JavaScript to do something, because a visitor's browser might not support it or even have it turned off. The one advantage of using JavaScript to create your navigation is that you can update it by changing a single file. If you don't have server support (PHP, etc), then this is the only way it can be done without frames.

Peter