[TYPO3] Rollover page descriptions for menus

[Peter Klein]

Hi James. You can do that using pure CSS (No need for JS).. Try this simple 
example..

-- cut --
 <style>
 a span { display: none;text-decoration: none;}
 a:hover span {display: 
block;position:absolute;top:100px;left:200px;color:black;padding:10px;border:2px 
solid black;}
 </style>

<A HREF="#">Link 1<SPAN>Description text for link #1</SPAN></A><br />
<A HREF="#">Link 2<SPAN>Description text for link #2</SPAN></A><br />
<A HREF="#">Link 3<SPAN>Description text for link #3</SPAN></A>
-- cut --

Then all you will have to do, is extend your menu to add the SPAN tag with 
the description, next to the menuitem title. ;)

--
Peter Klein / Umloud Untd.

"James Corell" <jcorell at e-p-c-s.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.11683.1165942813.21325.typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de...
> I'd like to configure TYPO3 to display a description block somewhere in 
> the
> layout when a user performs a rollover of a menu link (from an HMENU). 
> I'll
> need some way to pull a description from the page object, insert it into a
> named DIV element somewhere on the page, and insert that DIV name into the
> HMENU link.
>
> The link code would end up like this: <A HREF="index.php?id=xxx"
> onMouseOver="display('divName');" onMouseOut="hide('divName');">Link
> Title</A>
> The description code, shown elsewhere on the page: <DIV
> NAME="divName">Description text</DIV>
>
> I can get away with hard-coding the DIV containers for the time being, but 
> I
> still need the dynamic menu. Any ideas? Where should I start looking for
> this capability, or am I going to need to write this into TSConfig (or an
> extension) from scratch? I can probably use the "Abstract" field for data
> storage.
>
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