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Cursor Arrival and Departure

  

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
  "http://www.w3.org/tr/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<!-- 
     Example File From "JavaScript and DHTML Cookbook"
     Published by O'Reilly & Associates
     Copyright 2003 Danny Goodman
-->
<html>
<head>
<title>Mouse roll over</title>
<style type="text/CSS">
.direction {background-color:#00ffff; 
             width:100px; 
             height:50px; 
             text-align:center
            }
#main {background-color:#fff6666; text-align:center}
html {background-color:#cccccc}
body {background-color:#eeeeee; font-family:Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12px;
    margin-left:15%; margin-right:15%; border:3px groove darkred; padding:15px}
h1 {text-align:right; font-size:1.5em; font-weight:bold}
h2 {text-align:left; font-size:1.1em; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline}
.buttons {margin-top:10px}


</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showArrival(evt) {
    var direction = "";
    evt = (evt) ? evt : ((window.event) ? event : null);
    if (evt) {
        var elem = (evt.target) ? evt.target : ((evt.srcElement) ? 
            evt.srcElement : null);
        if (elem) {
            // limit processing to element nodes
            if (elem.nodeType == 1) {
                // for W3C DOM property
                if (evt.relatedTarget) {
                    if (evt.relatedTarget != elem.firstChild) {
                        direction = (evt.relatedTarget.firstChild) ? 
                            evt.relatedTarget.firstChild.nodeValue : "parts unknown";
                    }
                // for IE DOM property
                } else if (evt.fromElement) {
                    direction = (event.fromElement.innerText) ? 
                       event.fromElement.innerText : "parts unknown";
                }
                // display results
                document.getElementById("direction").value = "Arrived from: " + 
                    direction;
            }
        }
    }
}
function showDeparture(evt) {
    var direction = "";
    evt = (evt) ? evt : ((window.event) ? event : null);
    if (evt) {
        var elem = (evt.target) ? evt.target : ((evt.srcElement) ? 
            evt.srcElement : null);
        if (elem) {
             // limit processing to element nodes
             if (elem.nodeType == 1) {
                // for W3C DOM property
                if (evt.relatedTarget) {
                    if (evt.relatedTarget != elem.firstChild) {
                        direction = (evt.relatedTarget.firstChild) ? 
                            evt.relatedTarget.firstChild.nodeValue : "parts unknown";
                    }
                // for IE DOM property
                } else if (evt.toElement) {
                    direction = (event.toElement.innerText) ? 
                        event.toElement.innerText : "parts unknown";
                }
                // display results
               document.getElementById("direction").value = "Departed to: " + 
                   direction;
            }
        }
    }
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Cursor Arrival/Departure</h1>
<hr /> 
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="25">
<tr><td></td><td class="direction">North</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td class="direction">West</td>
<td id="main" onmouseover="showArrival(event)" 
              onmouseout="showDeparture(event)">Roll</td>
<td class="direction">East</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td class="direction">South</td><td></td></tr>
</table>

<form name="output">
<input id="direction" type="text" size="30" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

           
         
    
  








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