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Hooch

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Hi all. I hope to get my point across here without confusing everyone. What is the best way to have the ability to mouse over a link ( it needs to be a link too) that will change a picture on another part of a page? There will be about 40-60 of these links. I'm helping out with a local artist communities webpage. They will have anywhere from 40 - 60 members. On the members page they want to be able to show all members on one page. They will be in 2 columns and there will be a spot between the 2 columns for a small pic of the atrtist. So when you mouse over each name you can see thier picture, and if you want to see more just click the link. Is this a possiblity? Thank you

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Yes it's possible, you can use javascript to change pics on a page, i have given you 3 examples of some famous painters :) (the pics may take a second to load when you mouse over, you could get round this by Preloading the images)

<body><a href="#" onmouseover="main.src='http://www.abm-enterprises.net/artgall2/monalisa.jpg'" onmouseout="main.src='http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rsf/IMPROVE/SPOL/widgets/blank.gif'">leonardo da vinci</a><br /><a href="#" onmouseover="main.src='http://www.wmich.edu/~emrl/vt/pics/michelangelo_david_detail.jpg'" onmouseout="main.src='http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rsf/IMPROVE/SPOL/widgets/blank.gif'">michelangelo</a><br /><a href="#" onmouseover="main.src='http://examples.oreilly.com/java2d/examples/Raphael.jpg'" onmouseout="main.src='http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rsf/IMPROVE/SPOL/widgets/blank.gif'">raphael</a><img style="height:300px;width:200px;position:absolute;left:500px; top:100px" id="main" src="http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rsf/IMPROVE/SPOL/widgets/blank.gif" /></body>

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Hi Scott, I have another question. Is it possible to add alt="text here" somewhere over the text of the link? So when you scroll over the artists name, it will say they are a "painter" or "carver" etc. Thank you..Hooch btw, here's my work in progress TIArts.org Go to the members page to see this code in action.

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Is it possible to add alt="text here" somewhere over the text of the link? So when you scroll over the artists name, it will say they are a "painter" or "carver" etc.

Yes it's possible - but don't use alt, use title.alt is the text that is displayed when your picture doesn't load (IE incorrectly displays it when you mouse over a pic)title should be used to display text when you mouse over a pic or anything else and works in all brosers.Example:
<a href="#" title="painter">peter</a><a href="#" title="caver">bob</a>

:)

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