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Old Pedant · 10-05-2012, 10:52 PM

Well, for starters, I see document.all in there. Which means you have been reading obsolete books and/or code. Not that it's wrong, per se, just that it's not the best way.

Same with stuff such as language="JavaScript" and //-->

ANYWAY...you don't show how you activate the ShowText and HideText.

And obvious fix is to use onmouseover of whatever-you-are-using to show the box and then onmouseout *OF THE BOX* to hide it. Don't assign an onmouseout for the whatever-you-are-using.

Oh...and there is a MUCH easier way to make a popup box appear near the point of the onmouseover. Without needing to track the cursor all over the screen.

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Old Pedant Supreme Master coder! Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 23,248 Thanks: 59 Thanked 3,999 Times in 3,968 Posts	Well, for starters, I see document.all in there. Which means you have been reading obsolete books and/or code. Not that it's wrong, per se, just that it's not the best way. Same with stuff such as language="JavaScript" and //--> ANYWAY...you don't show how you activate the ShowText and HideText. And obvious fix is to use onmouseover of whatever-you-are-using to show the box and then onmouseout OF THE BOX to hide it. Don't assign an onmouseout for the whatever-you-are-using. Oh...and there is a MUCH easier way to make a popup box appear near the point of the onmouseover. Without needing to track the cursor all over the screen. __________________ An optimist sees the glass as half full. A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. A realist drinks it no matter how much there is.