Issue: Change row color on mouse over in Netscape 4 7

Steve, Thanks for your input its greatly appreciated. I'll be sure to check out our your site you noted. Have a great holiday! Regards, James Blaha Steve Drucker wrote: >Yeah, you will not get it to work in Netscape 4.x.  The only way to swap >background colors effect to work in Netscape 4.x is to make each table row a ><LAYER> and then use document.write on an onmouseover event to rewrite the >contents of the layer with a different color.  VERY painful.  You might want >to look at the nav-bar solution we developed for www.frbatlanta.org (visit >using netscape 4, then do view-source) to get a sense of what real PAIN is >like! > >Regards, >Steve Drucker >CEO >Fig Leaf Software >w. www.figleaf.com >p. (877) FIG-LEAF > > >   > >>I actually think it's getting to be a good time to force them to upgrade. >>There was a time where websites started coming along that had a minimum >>Nutscrape 4/IE 4 requirement.  Why not take a moment and raise the bar to >>IE >>5 / Nutscrape 6 /Opera 6 / Mozilla 1.0...  Makes sense to me... >> >>You won't get it to work, NS 4.7's CSS and DHTML support is very weak. >> >>I'm also real sure that you can't use an onMouseOver event on a TR or a TD >>in 4.7 >> >>However, from a philosophical perspective (and I don't mean to get OT or >>cause a furor), if your users are about average as far as browser stats, I >>wouldn't even bother to offer anything beyond a basic, presentable layout >>in >>NS4.x since they are a very small minority (<5% on our site).  But that's >>just me, I love browsers with solid CSS support :-) >> >>Pete >> >>>Hello Everyone: >>> >>>I've spent too many hours on this I hit a wall. I'm using the code >>>below to alternate row color for my table and when you mouse over each >>>row it should change the background color for the row. It works in IE >>>5+ and Netscape 6+ but I can't get it to work in Netscape 4.7 any >>>ideas? >>> >>><TR valign="top" >>>bgcolor="###iif(currentrow MOD 2,DE('BFCCE6'),DE('D8DFE1'))#" >>>onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='##FAF7B8'; window.status='My >>>Window Message';return true;" >>>onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='###iif(currentrow MOD >>>2,DE('BFCCE6'),DE('D8DFE1'))#'; window.status=''; return true;"> >>> >>> >>>Bonus Question: I'm working within a framed page it possible when the >>>user mouse's over the row to send a value to a window.status for >>>Netscape 4.7? >>> >>>Regards, >>>James Blaha >>> >>> >>> >>>       >>> >>     >> >