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From: "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] Labelling table cells with marker name
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 03:36:57 -0400
In-Reply-To: <03bb01c59c73$846d87f0$71509045@Ken1>


You would have to know the basics of HTML coding to understand Glen's message.
And it's a solution that would have to be implemented by the web author, not the
page visitor.

If you view the code of an HTML table, a table row is encased in these tags:
<tr></tr>
and a table cell is encased in these tags:<td></td>

A row with two (empty) cells would be:
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>

Apparently, if you add a code for TITLE in the opening cell tag, you can have
the title pop up as a "mouse-over" for the viewer:
<tr>
<td TITLE="name1"></td>
<td TITLE="name2"></td>
</tr>

I just tried it, and it works. (Surprise!)

This code can obviously be added manually using an HTML editor, or (checking the
programs I have) it appears web design programs have a menu choice allowing you
to add code to a cell. Either way (manually or via menu) is tedious, so you'd
obviously want to create a template.

Diana, kid with new toy




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Nordtvedt [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 6:47 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [DNA] Labelling table cells with marker name
>
> It sounds like an excellent idea, and no doubt trivial to
> those who know
> what is being suggested (I have seen hidden messages when
> hovering), but I
> have not the slightest idea what is being suggested as
> practical steps to
> implement. Can't these things be explained without all the jargon?
>
>
>


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