Sorry about that - I didn't think that I had coded those ID's in manually ...

If it's not in by default, I'll add that to the hinstructions for the hack :)

Thanks for the debugging :)

EDIT: those edits are part of the instructions for Gary's hack - there are conditionals there to show the ID statements if the PM box has a PM in it ....

ah! i browsed the thread and saw that gary's wasn't working for mozilla users, so i didnt even open his txt up, and then i saw your thread and just applied that. thanks again, I hope to get the hovering forums that this thread is for up tonight!

Let me know how you go :) just remember you don't need to re-add the script statement :)

very good modification, thank you very much!
Installed*

Glad you like it :)

easier way to do tis.

change like '//actv cell" to "actv cell" or something like that in the footer template

As stated numerous times, that is IE specific - this is cross-browser.

It's a nice Hack, reminds me of my first hack on a phpBB board I once ran.

on mouseover the font shrinks though, which causes a bit of unwanted "twitchiness" when moving up and down.

Do you know which font style to edit to prevent this, or is there a little more font definition code to insert into the alt2 code?
cheers.

EDIT: Sorry, this was a dumb question - I had 10px font on the second alternating color in styles, which explains the shrink - please disregard.
cheers! (taking out the shrink sped it up too!)

Glad to hear it - i thought it would be that :D

I had alt2 set to 10px to keep the reply Quotes nice and small - now that I removed the font size def, all quotes are now large again, (a little ugly IMHO)
is there a way that the bbcode quote can use another stay and maintain a small size, for some reason specifying type="smallfont" in bb_quote template does nothing .
it's a toss up between nice small quotes and this cool mouseover effect, but would be really nice to have the cake and eat it.
cheers

instead of type="smallfont", try class="smallfont"

strangely, smallfont wasn't that small :) shrinking it threw a lot of my text out making it too small on the headers, it also had the wrong background color for quote box purposes.
I tried a number of class names but td2 seems to look best for quoting, I'm just going to live with it jumping smaller on the mouseover for now, unless you know of a simple addition to the bbcode_quote to shrink the font on a per use basis.
I use the simple one with no graphic bubbles for all styles;

Try:

I already tried the smallfont alt2 switcheroo, it looks ok and almost as small, but it's not as small as I used to have alt2 (9 px) doesn't look right on forumhome if you make smallfont that small in the style and the background color is wrong on smallfont.

I might try experimenting with your code to use two different styles, other than alt1 and 2 that have similar fonts and colors in my styles, shame you can't define a whole new font definition like mouseover1 mouseover2 for ultimate customization.

Cheers for the code though.

Thanks for the mod Natch :) works great. *clicks install*

For my installation, the Hardwired style had the same alt1 and alt2 backgrounds and changing the second one made the rest of the style look bad, so I changed all of the alt2Active classes to alt1Hover and defined this class in the Additional CSS Definitions at the bottom:
The inherit-class gives the new class all the same properties as the original class, then i just change the background and cursor. "pointer" is like "hand", but works in Firefox too. And the font-size didn't inherit correctly in IE, so I had to copy the value to the new class. Hope that helps someone.

I believe I read that the 3.04 version of Vbulletin now has an Alt3 style, either that or they deleted alt3 as a redundant item.

how come this works on every page but my forumhome?