# Basic Javascript
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-javascript/6301
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [October 3, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-javascript/6301 "2002-10-03T18:31:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@RageW0lf](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RageW0lf)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-javascript/6301/1 "2002-10-03T18:31:14Z")
Javascript is very similar to actionscript so I hope somebody can help me here, pretty straight forward…
I am creating a page in Javascript / HTML (possible with DW) which will contain a large amount of images. I am using DHTML style effects to make the images increase in Alpha on mouse over.
I want to create a small box, and on mouse over I want text to appear in that box saying some details about that picture. I want to use the SAME BOX for 50 or so different images.
I would much prefer it to be text rather than switch images of text.
I want to do this in JAVASCRIPT not Flash please. I have DW, but I don’t know it atall well, so if this is an option thats easy to do in DW perhaps you can advise me that way!
thanks for any help.
PS : 2 years ago I did a course on Javascript and we did something very similar to this, and it wasn’t a lot of code but I can’t remember it, and I have no idea how to adapt Actionscript to Javascript :pirate:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2002, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-javascript/6301/2 "2002-10-05T06:39:40Z")
Visit my site at [www.lostinbeta.com](http://www.lostinbeta.com)
Go to the Links section. Mouse over the buttons… is that the effect you are going for. If so, I will see if I can whip up a quick example on how I did it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-javascript/6301/3 "2002-10-13T02:26:35Z")
yeah thats exactly the kind of effect I am looking for. If you could help me understand how to do something like that I would be very greatful
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2002, 6:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-javascript/6301/4 "2002-10-20T06:40:00Z")
Hey Rage,
Sorry for the long time to reply, for some reason your reply to this thread didn’t show up in my UserCP so I didn’t know you replied.
I will get crackin to see if I can come up with an example. I also have to test if my way works in Netscape.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-javascript/6301/5 "2002-10-22T05:37:01Z")
alrigth awesome. thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2002, 5:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-javascript/6301/6 "2002-10-22T05:52:47Z")
Alright… well my version only works in IE… \*\*\*\* Netscape… I think I may start cookin on a multi browser version though.
Until then… you can find something like it at
[http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/linkdescribe.htm](http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/linkdescribe.htm)
Sorry ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-javascript/6301/7 "2002-10-22T05:54:02Z")
Oh yeah… if you are interested in disecting mine I attached it here.
It is really lame because I whipped it up in like 5 minutes tops (literally).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-javascript/6301/8 "2002-10-25T00:04:12Z")
Alright , I’ll check those out. Thanks LIB
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-javascript/6301/9 "2002-10-25T02:04:59Z")
No problem. I hope they help 🙂