/**********************************************************************************
PopupDescriptions
* Copyright (C) 2001 Thomas Brattli
* This script was released at DHTMLCentral.com
* Visit for more great scripts!
* This may be used and changed freely as long as this msg is intact!
* We will also appreciate any links you could give us.
*
* Made by Thomas Brattli
*
* Script date: 09/04/2001 (keep this date to check versions)
*********************************************************************************/
function lib_bwcheck(){ //Browsercheck (needed)
this.ver=navigator.appVersion
this.agent=navigator.userAgent
this.dom=document.getElementById?1:0
this.opera5=(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")>-1 && document.getElementById)?1:0
this.ie5=(this.ver.indexOf("MSIE 5")>-1 && this.dom && !this.opera5)?1:0;
this.ie6=(this.ver.indexOf("MSIE 6")>-1 && this.dom && !this.opera5)?1:0;
this.ie4=(document.all && !this.dom && !this.opera5)?1:0;
this.ie=this.ie4||this.ie5||this.ie6
this.mac=this.agent.indexOf("Mac")>-1
this.ns6=(this.dom && parseInt(this.ver) >= 5) ?1:0;
this.ns4=(document.layers && !this.dom)?1:0;
this.bw=(this.ie6 || this.ie5 || this.ie4 || this.ns4 || this.ns6 || this.opera5)
return this
}
var bw=lib_bwcheck()
/***************************************************************************************
Variables to set:
***************************************************************************************/
messages=new Array()
//Write your descriptions in here.
messages[0] = "Email us!"
messages[1] = "Isadora Duncan
(1878-1927)"
messages[2] = "Margaret Sanger
(1883-1966)"
messages[3] = "Jeanette Rankin
(1880-1973)"
messages[4] = "Aimee Semple McPherson
(1890-1944)"
messages[5] = "Josephine Baker
(1906-1975)"
messages[6] = "Willa Cather
(1873-1947)"
messages[7] = "Katharine Hepburn
(born 1907)"
messages[8] = "Emma Goldman
(1869-1940)"
messages[9] = "Amelia Earhart
(1897-1937)"
messages[10] = "Martha Graham
(1894-1991)"
messages[11] = "Mae West
(1893-1980)"
messages[12] = "Anna May Wong
(1907-1961)"
messages[13] = "Margaret Bourke-White
(1906-1971)"
messages[14] = "Dorothy Parker
(1893-1967)"
messages[15] = "Billie Holiday
(1915-1959)"
messages[16] = "Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962)"
messages[17] = "Marian Anderson
(1897-1993)"
messages[18] = "Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
(1914-1956)"
messages[19] = "Julie Harris
(born 1925),
Ethel Waters
(1896-1977)
and Carson McCullers
(1917-1967)"
messages[20] = "Frances Perkins
(1880-1965)"
messages[21] = "Ella Fitzgerald
(1917-1966)"
messages[22] = "Althea Gibson
(born 1927)"
messages[23] = "Rosa Parks
(born 1913)"
messages[24] = "Marianne Moore
(1887-1972)"
messages[25] = "Marilyn Monroe
(1926-1962)"
messages[26] = "Dorothy Day
(1897-1980)"
messages[27] = "Sylvia Plath
(1932-1963)"
messages[28] = "Anne Sexton
(1928-1974)"
messages[29] = "Fannie Lou Hamer
(1917-1977)"
messages[30] = "Katherine Graham
(1917-2001)"
messages[31] = "Julia Child
(born 1912)"
messages[32] = "Maya Lin
(born 1959)"
messages[33] = "Gloria Steinem
(born 1934)
and Susan Faludi
(born 1959)"
//To have more descriptions just add to the array.
fromX = 20 //How much from the actual mouse X should the description box appear?
fromY = -20 //How much from the actual mouse Y should the description box appear?
//To set the font size, font type, border color or remove the border or whatever,
//change the clDescription class in the stylesheet.
//Makes crossbrowser object.
function makeObj(obj){
this.evnt=bw.dom? document.getElementById(obj):bw.ie4?document.all[obj]:bw.ns4?document.layers[obj]:0;
if(!this.evnt) return false
this.css=bw.dom||bw.ie4?this.evnt.style:bw.ns4?this.evnt:0;
this.wref=bw.dom||bw.ie4?this.evnt:bw.ns4?this.css.document:0;
this.writeIt=b_writeIt;
return this
}
// A unit of measure that will be added when setting the position of a layer.
var px = bw.ns4||window.opera?"":"px";
function b_writeIt(text){
if (bw.ns4){this.wref.write(text);this.wref.close()}
else this.wref.innerHTML = text
}
//Capturing mousemove
var descx = 0
var descy = 0
function popmousemove(e){descx=bw.ns4||bw.ns6?e.pageX:event.x; descy=bw.ns4||bw.ns6?e.pageY:event.y}
var oDesc;
//Shows the messages
function popup(num){
if(oDesc){
oDesc.writeIt(''+messages[num]+'
')
if(bw.ie5||bw.ie6) descy = descy+document.body.scrollTop
oDesc.css.left = (descx+fromX)+px
oDesc.css.top = (descy+fromY)+px
oDesc.css.visibility = "visible"
}
}
//Hides it
function popout(){
if(oDesc) oDesc.css.visibility = "hidden"
}
function setPopup(){
if(bw.ns4)document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE)
document.onmousemove = popmousemove;
oDesc = new makeObj('divDescription')
}