Creating a simple help feature

[liunx]

Hi all,<br />
I have a column on my page with a bunch of technical terms and I want to add a help feature. What I propose is to just put a ? after the term. It looks good so far. Like FFMC ? I want to make it that either by a click or just a mouseover that a help box will come up. In the help will only be text. I want to try and stay away from making a new page for each help ? so I don't think I can do this in a pop up window? I can't figure out how to make a kind of mouseover command on just a simple text either. Any ideas? How would you approach this? Thanks.<br />
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Shayne<!--content-->Aha, I figured it out,<br />
I simply did this <br />
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<A HREF=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"javascript:;" target="iframe1" onClick="alert('Helpful definition here')">?</A><!--content-->doesn't work cos it opens a page after you close the alert!<br />
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here try this:<br />
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<span onClick="alert('Helpful definition here')" style="cursor:hand;">?</span> <br />
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/added<br />
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i don't know if that's valid or not, i'm not to good at javascript lol, but it works <!--content--><A HREF=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"javascript:void(0)" onClick="alert('Helpful definition here')">?</A><br />
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OR<br />
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<A HREF=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"#" onClick="alert('Helpful definition here')">?</A><!--content-->If you want, you could try using the title option to make a "text tip" popup onmouseover.<br />
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<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"#" title="Text Tip Here">?</a><br />
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<span style="cursorointer;" title="Text Tip Here">?</span><br />
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I know that in IE6, and Firebird 0.7 it works...I'm pretty sure it works in NS too.<!--content-->but that doesn't stay up on the screen very long.<!--content-->Thanks!<!--content-->