SOLVED: line breaks in my hover box HTML caused the problem.
once i took out all the hard line breaks it became this and worked
<table style="font-size: 9pt; empty-cells: show;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="" rowspan="">Only North <br>West England<br>entry-program<br>club within<br>70 miles !!!</td> <td colspan="" rowspan=""> <img src="http://dkpfiles.com/oceanwavers/files/logotiny_LuneValleyOceanWavers.png" border="0"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
Your 'newlines to br hint eventually sunk in.
Original post (left in place for others with same issue. )
HI, first post, and I tried looking around in the forums but I can't seem to find enough info on hover to fix this myself
I have been successfully pasting (what i think is) html code into my hover text in my menu links but the table tags don't seem to work right. I know the code is right, or think I know its right, because the exact same code on the target page works fine
target page
http://oceanwavers.dkpsystem.com/dynpage.php?id=68the code looks like this (with an html /html tag and body /body tags wrapped around it
<b><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Lune Valley Ocean Wavers</span><br>
Square Dance Club (England)<br>
</b>
<table style="font-size: 9pt; empty-cells: show;" border="0"
cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="" rowspan="">Only North <br>
West England <br>
entry-program <br>
club within <br>
70 miles !!!</td>
<td colspan="" rowspan=""><img
src="http://dkpfiles.com/oceanwavers/files/logotiny_LuneValleyOceanWavers.png"
border="0">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I tried various combinations (by the way, spell check just flagged combinations as not spelled right but I think it is) of the html source (with and without body tag wrappers, html tag wrappers, etc, and none seem to allow it to look right.
are the hover popups mixed bbcode / html or are they bbcode that recognizes some html maybe and thats why it doesn't work right ?
I can get 'a' tags, with hrefs and text, and hrefs followed by images to all work but this one with text beside text seems to have beaten me.
oh, and is there a way to change the hover background color for menu item popups? I fiugred out how to address all the text fields from one of the forum posts but I don't know enough about css yet to figure out how to address the background color and I tried the firefox firebug add-on but wasn't able to decipher using that what controls that color.
E Whitaker
San Marcos