{popup} is used to create Javascript popup layer/windows. {popup_init} MUST be called first for this to work. Attribute Name Type Required Default Description text string Yes n/a the text/html to display in the popup window trigger string No onMouseOver what is used to trigger the popup window. Can be one of onMouseOver or onClick sticky boolean No &false; makes the popup stick around until closed caption string No n/a sets the caption to title fgcolor string No n/a color of the inside of the popup box bgcolor string No n/a color of the border of the popup box textcolor string No n/a sets the color of the text inside the box capcolor string No n/a sets color of the box's caption closecolor string No n/a sets the color of the close text textfont string No n/a sets the font to be used by the main text captionfont string No n/a sets the font of the caption closefont string No n/a sets the font for the Close text textsize string No n/a sets the size of the main text's font captionsize string No n/a sets the size of the caption's font closesize string No n/a sets the size of the Close text's font width integer No n/a sets the width of the box height integer No n/a sets the height of the box left boolean No &false; makes the popups go to the left of the mouse right boolean No &false; makes the popups go to the right of the mouse center boolean No &false; makes the popups go to the center of the mouse above boolean No &false; makes the popups go above the mouse. NOTE: only possible when height has been set below boolean No &false; makes the popups go below the mouse border integer No n/a makes the border of the popups thicker or thinner offsetx integer No n/a how far away from the pointer the popup will show up, horizontally offsety integer No n/a how far away from the pointer the popup will show up, vertically fgbackground url to image No n/a defines a picture to use instead of color for the inside of the popup. bgbackground url to image No n/a defines a picture to use instead of color for the border of the popup. NOTE: You will want to set bgcolor to or the color will show as well. NOTE: When having a Close link, Netscape will re-render the table cells, making things look incorrect closetext string No n/a sets the Close text to something else noclose boolean No n/a does not display the Close text on stickies with a caption status string No n/a sets the text in the browsers status bar autostatus boolean No n/a sets the status bar's text to the popup's text. NOTE: overrides status setting autostatuscap string No n/a sets the status bar's text to the caption's text. NOTE: overrides status and autostatus settings inarray integer No n/a tells overLib to read text from this index in the ol_text array, located in overlib.js. This parameter can be used instead of text caparray integer No n/a tells overLib to read the caption from this index in the ol_caps array capicon url No n/a displays the image given before the popup caption snapx integer No n/a snaps the popup to an even position in a horizontal grid snapy integer No n/a snaps the popup to an even position in a vertical grid fixx integer No n/a locks the popups horizontal position Note: overrides all other horizontal placement fixy integer No n/a locks the popups vertical position Note: overrides all other vertical placement background url No n/a sets image to be used instead of table box background padx integer,integer No n/a pads the background image with horizontal whitespace for text placement. Note: this is a two parameter command pady integer,integer No n/a pads the background image with vertical whitespace for text placement. Note: this is a two parameter command fullhtml boolean No n/a allows you to control the html over a background picture completely. The html code is expected in the text attribute frame string No n/a controls popups in a different frame. See the overlib page for more info on this function function string No n/a calls the specified javascript function and takes the return value as the text that should be displayed in the popup window delay integer No n/a makes that popup behave like a tooltip. It will popup only after this delay in milliseconds hauto boolean No n/a automatically determine if the popup should be to the left or right of the mouse. vauto boolean No n/a automatically determine if the popup should be above or below the mouse. mypage {* you can use html, links, etc in your popup text *} mypage {* a popup over a table cell *} {$part_number} ]]> There is another good example on the {capture} page. See also {popup_init} and the overLib homepage.