Javascript Question

**IceBlade** · 10-02-2008, 03:44 AM

Okay this is what I have so far. It's pretty simple although I know nothing about this stuff so it took me hours to get this far. Anyways. What I want to do is have the text it displays on mouseover to show up on the right of the image rather than displaying on the bottom. So when I mouseover I want the [1,1], [1,2], etc. to show up on the right of the image.. preferably vertically centered.

What would really be ideal is if I could get the text to shop up at the current mouse position like under the cursor. Is that possible? Help please?

Code:

<html>
<head>

<script type="text/javascript">
function writeText(txt)
{
document.getElementById("desc").innerHTML=txt;
}
</script>

</head>
<body>

<img src="IkariamMap_01.gif" width="680" height="680"
alt="Coords" usemap="#ikimap" />

<map id ="ikimap" name="ikimap">
<area shape ="rect" coords ="20,20,40,40"
onMouseOver="writeText('[1,1]')"
href ="island1.htm" target ="_blank" alt="1,1" />

<area shape ="rect" coords ="40,20,60,40"
onMouseOver="writeText('[1,2]')"
href ="island2.htm" target ="_blank" alt="1,2" />

<area shape ="rect" coords ="60,20,80,40"
onMouseOver="writeText('[1,3]')"
href ="island3.htm" target ="_blank" alt="1,3" />
</map> 
<p id="desc"></p>



</body>
</html>