On mouse over pop up? PHP

[thefreebielife]

What is the name of the javascript code that when you mouse over an image, a description pops up?

 

In my case, the description would be whats stored in a Database.

 

What I mean is not a new window, but something that pop ups, then dispeers when you mouse off.

 

Thanks

[roopurt18]

You need to add a hidden span to the document containing the text you'd like to pop up.  Use CSS to style the span so that it has an absolute position and give it a width, height, font-color, border, background color, etc.

 

Then you add event handlers to the onmouseout and onmouseover for the image.  The onmouseover handler should display and position the span; the onmouseout should hide the span.

[RichardRotterdam]

there are also plenty of cool javascript effect for what you want. Do a search on the word tooltip.