Open Link on Mouse Over

From:
                   THE INTERNET TUTOR
                Thursday, September 26, 2002
                      by Boogie Jack


Note: In code examples I add a period after each left arrow
bracket so the code can be viewed in all email programs. If 
you copy and paste, be sure to remove the periods or it won't 
work.

You can have your links open by simply having a user pass 
their mouse over a link, it's not necessary to click the 
link. You do have to be careful where you use it though. 
If you have a lot of links all bunched up together, some-
one could accidently open several windows with different 
links at the same time.

I'll leave it up to you to find a useful place for it (and 
isn't that sweet of me ;-). The code below shows the link 
using text for the link, but you could use an image in place 
of the text just as easily. This particular code will open 
the link in a new browser window.

<.a href="http://www.boogiejack.com/" onmouseover="window.open
('http://www.boogiejack.com/');">Boogie Jack's Web Depot<./a>

If you want to open a link in the same browser window (still, 
with just a mouseover), then use this:

<.a href=""
onmouseover="parent.location='http://www.boogiejack.com'">
Boogie Jack's Web Depot

And that's how this mouse trap works, no cheese required.

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