How do I make a pop-up ballon with a word definition...

[Deleted member 4644]

I am trying to make an educational web site that will include some hard words. I want to have a simple set up where a balloon will pop up if a user clicks on a word.

I see something similar here:
http://www.beauscott.com/examples/help_balloons/

Also, a similar thing is on Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2946
(See the word INTEL pops up an advertisement).

I don't have a lot of programming experience, so if someone could tell me how to do this really simply, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks.

 

[skrilla]

I think what you are looking for are called "Tooltips"

I usually check Dynamic Drive for something like that.

Here is one that looks similar to the Intel one you mentioned. But they have others written with Javascript or CSS if you like.

 

[mooncancook]

The simplest way is to use "title=" property, something like this

<font title="my definition">my word</font>

if you want something fancy like the INTEL one you'll need to write a lot more codes

 

[TheSiege]

here is one
implemented on my site

mine has the sticky function on, but you can make it disappear right after the mouse moves off of the word

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Thanks guys, this is a good start.