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Jun 02.2006

Alright, I have set it up so that when someone hoves over a link an image in a div next to the links will change but I was wondering if I could change some text too? Can this be done and if so how?

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@phpnoviceJun 02.2006 — Show your link and code to change the image.
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@CharlesJun 02.2006 — [code=html]<a href="http://ww.w3.org/" onmouseover="this.firstChild.data = 'Yes!'" onmouseout="this.firstChild.data = 'W3C'">W3C</a>[/code]
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@BOB101authorJun 02.2006 — So Charles, is firstChild.data the name of the page with the text? So it would be like:
[code=html]<a href="http://ww.w3.org/" onmouseover="this.game1.html = 'Yes!'" onmouseout="this.game1.html = 'Game'">Game</a>[/code]
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@CharlesJun 02.2006 — No.

"this" is the element itself, the A element with which we wish to monkey.

"firstChild" is the A element's first child, the text node.

"data" is the CDATA, character data, contained by the text node.

Use my example exactly as it is.
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@BOB101authorJun 02.2006 — Charles,

It works but I want to change the text in another div not the link text itself. Is it possible to do that with mouseover?
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@CharlesJun 02.2006 — The principal is the same and you have several options. Perhaps not the easiest but certainly the most portable is to give your div an ID - but make sure that the DIV contains something before you monkey with it, &nbsp; will do.

[code=html]<a href="game.html" onmouseover="document.getElementById ('div-ID').firstChild.data = 'Yes!'" onmouseout="document.getElementById ('div-ID').firstChild.data = 'Game'">Game</a>[/code]
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@BOB101authorJun 02.2006 — Charles,

Is there a way that I can tell the link to show an HTML page inside the div on a mouseover using the same way?
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@CharlesJun 02.2006 — Try[code=html]<iframe name="myFrame"></iframe>

<a href="http://www.w3.org" onmouseover="window.myFrame.location = this.href" target="myFrame">W3C</a>[/code]
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@BOB101authorJun 02.2006 — Cool thanks, that what I'm looking for. But I want the link to show a different page, not it's url.
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