Hover Buttons
Just starting out with building web pages and I have some questions on the hover button syndrom. I have been doing some tests on my site periodically to see how it will act on the server. I noticed that when I hit a link on my side bar my top hover button blanks out and I have to refresh the page to make it return to normal. Is it just me or do I need to get rid of the hover buttons and just have a dynamic text instead. Signed just new at this but loving every minute of it.
paul28 posted this at 05:50 — 12th November 2002.
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Forgot to post my site for whoever to look at and evaluate. dfregion.com
The Webmistress posted this at 07:46 — 12th November 2002.
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This problem doesn't seem to be happening for me.
One thing I will say is that when you name pages don;t have spaces in them as the browser will replace the space with %20 and they can cause problems, always make sure you have - or _ between words.
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Busy posted this at 08:30 — 12th November 2002.
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also with image names
Which buttons? I only see a applet being used for link buttons
Also which browser did you notice the problem?
Megan posted this at 14:16 — 12th November 2002.
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I don't even see any text on the navbar there because I have java disabled. What did you use to create this page? FrontPage? (Ha! didn't even have to look!). It's a bad idea to use java for rollovers or any sort of page effects simply because it is so unreliable.
I haven't used Frontpage before really so I'm not sure what kind of instructions to give you. You might want to look for something along the lines of mouseover images or rollover images. You would create two separate images - one for the "up" state, one for the "down" state and use Javascript to make the change occur.
P.S. It's also a good idea to learn the actual code - that way you'll have a lot more control over your pages, even if you do decide to back to a WYSIWYG. Forgive me if I'm overexplaining here - sometimes we have to make assumptions about what people do and do not know and those can be wrong sometimes.
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nuk3 posted this at 21:22 — 12th November 2002.
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I ran the site through the W3 HTML Vailidator and it only had a few errors. It's either Frontpage is getting better or he is coding some of this by hand. As for the buttons, they work fine for me.
jammin posted this at 22:50 — 12th November 2002.
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buttons work fine for me... wow that source is tidy for it being generated by front page.
paul28 posted this at 04:19 — 13th November 2002.
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I will do these things that you spoke of. I am a really green newbie lol. I feal like a huffy bike machanic compared to the Ferrari mechanics out their, joke. Thanks once agin Paul:)
Renegade posted this at 04:35 — 13th November 2002.
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wow! ur right! the code is really clean! hey paul did u edit it? because i doubt very much that it's all generated by frontpage.
what about css? have u tried doing it with css?
i think it's something like
.navlink {
background:#55aaff;
}
.navlink:hover {
background:#ffaa55;
}
i'm not sure, cause i've never tried it b4, :S
paul28 posted this at 04:48 — 14th November 2002.
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The code that was generated was by frontapage 2002. You guys have worked with it before? I bought it a while back and have been pleased with it being not to familliar with html or any other scripts slowly working to learn them though. I took the hover buttons off and went straight back to dynamic text links I think they will be better in the long run for people that have slower connection speeds. I will copy the code that you displayed in the forum so I have it to use later if I decide to get wild. Thanks for your your reply, Paul
Renegade posted this at 04:27 — 16th November 2002.
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well if ur looking for hover buttons y don't u go to javascriptkit.com? they have a function there where u input ur own images and it will creat ur rollover image/button for u
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