The tooltip is perfect, but can the rectangular box in which the text is being displayed be changed? Is it possible to display the text in a different call out box instead of the rectangular one?

Thanks,
Vignesh

I’ve never done web development before my current APEX project, so on behalf of formerly pure-Oracle guys like me, thanks for not assuming that this was old news (even though your original posting was two years ago!)

Patrick

However, posted codes does NOTHING in Firefox 2.x.. Is there an issue?

It’s an ajax script that looks up the helptext

I would make the ajax call with prototype.js, but for completeness here’s some working example.
You never know who might read it

Here’s the code:
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function getText(itemid, sessionid) {
http_request = false;
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,…
http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
http_request.overrideMimeType(‘text/html’);
}
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
try {
http_request = new ActiveXObject(“Msxml2.XMLHTTP”);
} catch (e) {
try {
http_request = new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”);
} catch (e) {}
}
}
if (!http_request) {
alert(‘Cannot create XMLHTTP instance’);
return false;
}
http_request.open(‘GET’, ‘wwv_flow_item_help.show_help?p_item_id=’+itemid+’&p_session=’+sessionid, false);
http_request.onreadystatechange = showLabel;
http_request.send(null);

return returnText;
}

function showLabel() {
if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
if (http_request.status == 200) {
var labelText = http_request.responseText;
var searchStringTextBegin = ‘[span class="instructiontext"]‘;
var searchStringTextEnd = ‘[/span]‘;
var searchLocBegin = labelText.indexOf(searchStringTextBegin) + searchStringTextBegin.length;
var searchLocEnd = labelText.indexOf(searchStringTextEnd, searchLocBegin);
returnText = labelText.substr(searchLocBegin, searchLocEnd);
}
}
}

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Regards Guido

is it possible that getText is a self written javascript function? Because I couldn’t find it in htmldb_html_elements.js and htmldb_get.js

Patrick