Embed Example Page

Place your mouse over a color listed below. It will change the font color of the text on the page.
        Note: this effect works in IE browsers. Netscape users, sorry, them's the breaks. This brings up an important point; no matter how hard you try to make your scripts cross browser friendly, they won't always work. At times the problem may not be the scripts but the supported properties.

This was done by writing the script below into the head of the document. After that was done, it was only a matter of referring each of the elements to fire the particular color they are named for with an inline call. See below the script for the example.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"><!--

function red()
{
document.fgColor ="#FF0000"
}

function orange()
{
document.fgColor="#ffa500"
}

function green()
{
document.fgColor="#006400"
}

function turquoise()
{
document.fgColor="#00ced1"
}

function blue()
{
document.fgColor="#0000FF"
}

function black()
{
document.fgColor="#000000"
}

// --></script>

As you can see from above the one script tag holds six functions. Each has its own unique function name. The way they were referenced is listed below.

<center><table><tr><td>
<h3 onMouseOver="red()">Red</h3></td><td>
<h3 onMouseOver="orange()">Orange</h3></td><td>
<h3 onMouseOver="green()">Green</h3></td><td>
<h3 onMouseOver="turquoise()">Turquoise</h3></td><td>
<h3 onMouseOver="blue()">Blue</h3></td>
<h3 onMouseOver="black()">black</h3></td><td>
</tr></table></center>

Hope that this helps you...

Author: Joseph Raymond

27^th of March, 2001