Easily adding mouseovers in Dreamweaver

[Ms Naughty]

Can it be done? Is there a hidden way of adding a mouseover without stuffing around with the code all the time?

[thrillho]

Mouseover for an image swap or for hiding sponsor code? The former is easy, so I'm guessing it's the latter you're wondering about. I've not been able to figure that one out either.

[CelticTiger]

To hide the sponsor code choose the link you want the mouseover for. Go to the behaviors window and click the + sign - choose Set Text, and then Set Text of Status Bar. Type in your message.

Keeping the text selected go to the behaviors window and click the + sign and again choose Set Text, and then Set Text of Status Bar. Leave the message blank. Once this is done choose the down arrow and choose onMouseOut. Voila.

I might add you need to show events for 4.0 Browsers and later.

[thrillho]

Works like a charm--thanks CelticTiger!

[thrillho]

just used some different browsers to check the mouseovers--

looked fine in slimbrowser (which runs on the internet explorer engine), but mozilla and netscape had nothing in the status bar on mouseover.

so there still may be some code tweaking required to make it multi-browser compatible enough to be accepted by the link lists.

[shags]

I’m always using Cleo’s proper mouseover code

When the site is finish I use the find and replace function.
Find: <a href="http://www………….
Replace with: <a href="http://www………onmouseover……return true…………onmouseout…

Get this extension to do like CelticTiger, just faster. Set text of status bar

[Cleo]

Originally posted by shags
Get this extension to do like CelticTiger, just faster. Set text of status bar

That doesn't seem to work in Mozilla.

BTW Safari shows the actually URL no matter what mouseover code you use.

[thrillho]

Downloaded that Dreamweaver extension (thanks shags!) and replaced a couple of the mouseovers that I'd put in with DW's regular Behaviors panel. They worked--in both IE and Netscape--until I moused over one of the earlier, unreplaced links. That stopped any and all info from being displayed in the status bar. So I replaced all of the mouseovers with the new extension, and it's working fine. IE, Netscape and Mozilla all display the status bar message as desired. If Cleo or anyone else has a chance to take a peek with a different browser and/or OS, I'd be interested to see if this extension creates a workable mouseover across the board.
mouseover test page
It's my 404 page for smutmanor.com, but don't worry. No pop-ups, redirects, or anything cruel. Just links. The first banner (for Smut Manor) is a regular link--no mouseover. All the other banners have the new code.
Thanks to everyone for the input!
Lee

[Cleo]

Works in Mac IE and Mozilla, does nothing in Safari, but best I can tell Safari shows the actual URL no matter what you do.

What does in do in Windows on a right mouse click?

[thrillho]

Thanks, Cleo!
Right mouse click in Windows shows the regular affiliate code link. But the main reason that I'm interested in covering up the code is just to see if it improves the click throughs--and I figure it's surfers who are fairly new to the internet who might be put off by seeing a long, scary url and decide something bad's gonna happen if they click it. If they know enough to right click to double check the status bar, maybe they know enough to not be freaked out by what they see. But I could be all wrong. I've never used mouseovers before at all, so I reckon it couldn't hurt.

grandmascrotum--whenever you get back to check this thread out, I hope this has helped you. I almost forgot that I didn't start it myself lol. So thanks for starting it--it's helped me out!

[Cleo]

The mouseover code that I have on my help page will also work with right mouse click.

I do wish I could find something that worked with Safari seeing as it is basically the same browser as Linux's Konqueror which I guess means that it also doesn't work in Konqueror.

[Ms Naughty]

Thanks so much for the advice in this thread everyone!

I was looking to hide sponsor code, and I've been manually inserting Cleo's official version into the html which is tedious to say the least. Will have a play with these extensions.

[Ms Naughty]

This behaviours menu bar doesn't seem to be in Dreamweaver 4... oh well.

[Cleo]

I have a multi clip board utility on my machine and one of the clips is my mouseover code. Honestly it takes me longer to type what I want it to say then it does to past the code. I also have a page of snippets of code for other things that I do often. I find it is often easier to do things in code then in layout mode unless I'm actually doing the layout part.

I like using Adobe GoLive myself, but anything with a decent syntax highlighted code window and WYSIWYG layout window works fine for me too.

GoLive also has actions built in too but I find that the ones that I do by hand are much cleaner and seem to also work better.

[mogart]

<a href="url-to-hide" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.domain.com'; return true;" onfocus="window.status='http://www.domain.com';return true;" onmouseout="self.status='';return true">

check this out

[AbsolutePorn]

Thanks alot for the snippets.