[Release] Mouseover Effects

Author: Xiphoid

Description: This will teach you how to modify your forum cells in order to obtain the mouseover or "highlight" effect for your forum.

I didn't read through all the posts, so if anyone else posted that you could do this sorry. Ok, if you do not want your cursor to be a hand when it doesnt go over a link in the area you want to have highlighted, find

this.style.cursor='hand';"

And replace it with

this.style.cursor='normal';"

I did that with a previous forum I had, and didn't like the hand, so I changed it, and thought someone else put there might outta know and want to change it.

Originally posted by someone
I like this hack a lot, but I think there is still room for improvement.

Let's say you have 50 forums on your vbulletin board.

Then that means that this code:

onMouseOver="this.style.backgroundColor='#F9F9F9';
this.style.cursor='hand';"
onMouseOut="this.style.backgroundColor='#FFFFFF';"
onClick="window.location.href='forumdisplay.php?s= $session[sessionhash]&forumid=$forum[forumid]'"

will be displayed 50 times, which adds easely 12 KB to your page. Filesize and bandwith are pretty important to me, so I'm wondering if some nifty JavaScript code in the header of the page can elimate the unwanted KB's, by making the MouseOver commands short, like this for example:
onMouseOver="highlight"

Just wondering if this is possible at all, since I'm not a JavaScript guru.

i'm not a Javascript guru either but i know that a similar effect can be acheived with using CSS to define a class and I think with Javascript you can define a class too. So the code goes in the header once and then you just associate the object in the page with the class.

Thanks works nicely ...

thanks it works nice

[Tony G]

Originally posted by wolfe
not working for me

Are you getting an error or anything when you put it in? Your problem in more detail can help.

[1x1]

thanks.i will installl in my forum.thanks 2

Make it a javascript function

[Rufus69]

I got the tread part to work but when I try and make it work on the index nothing happens....I miss somthing?

[GoTTi]

this file isnt downloading for me...ne1 got problem downloading it?

[Tony G]

Working fine for me, whats the problem?