Not sure if this is the right forum but how do i do this?

[AdRock]

I have been looking at the phpFreaks website and was looking at the registration page (not for the forum but for the main site) and I noticed something that I thought was a good idea for forms.

 

If you look at http://www.phpfreaks.com/register.php and look where they ask for an email address, there is a question mark in brackets and when you hover over it it brings up a hint box with some information about the field.

 

What i would like to know is how is it done?  Is it done using CSS or JavaScript or both?  Is there anywhere I can find out how to do this for my forms on my site?  ???

[dewey_witt]

Well i know you can do that with plain everyday grafix useing the alt="your message" attribute in the html image tag. Im am however going to look at what it is your talking about tho to grasp better what your saying.

[dewey_witt]

ok after looking at it its done with java as a mouseover effect.

[AdRock]

Any idea of what it's called so I can do a search for something similar?

[RichardRotterdam]

Well i know you can do that with plain everyday grafix useing the alt="your message"

That only works for IE though

 

Any idea of what it's called so I can do a search for something similar?

It's called a tooltip the javascript tooltips do looker cooler but you can achieve it by using css only

[nogray]

check this out

http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm

 

[chronister]

Check out dynamicdrive.com

 

They have a bunch of mouseover tooltips and they give you step by step directions for implementing them on your site