make a definition appear when I hover over a word
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I want to use words that may need explanation. I would like to create the definition once and when I use the word in a post, to make it look like a link, but just have the definition show up if the viewer hovers over that link. I have not figured out how to do it, and I don’t know what to call it to search for it in a forum. I tried it as a link, but it didn’t work.
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What you are looking for is called “cursor:help” which you would place in the html editor like so:
<span style="cursor:help;" title="DEFINITION">WORD</span>DEFINITION is the explanation of the word.
WORD is what the reader would hover over to see your explanation. -
Thank you.
would I do it a dfferent way to set that definition up once and use it over again? -
You would have to enter code into the HTML editor for every word you wish to define and in every post/page you publish that the said defined word appears in.
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You can keep code snippets or words you define repeatedly in textedit (or other plain text wordprocessor), or on a draft page on your blog) to copy and paste into each article’s http editor: you don’t have to keep manually re-writing them.
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