Hello:
I'm looking for some assistance with a third-party script I'm using that incorporates onmouseover popups. If the content of the popup is too large to appear within the visible window just below the onmouseover spot, two different behaviours occur in firefox and IE 6:
IE 6 will elongate the browser window via scrolling to allow the popup to be viewed - but you must physically scroll the window further down after doing the onmouseover.
Firefox will reposition the popup elsewhere in the visible window.
I think the repositioning behaviour is the preferred user experience (although I'd like it to still be anchored to the onmouseover spot, not far away), but my js knowledge is far too limited to understand why these two different behaviours are happening.
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<span class='header'>MacAleese James Anderson</span><br />
<span class="normal"><img src="images/tng_male.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="" style="vertical-align: -1px;"/> 1829 - 1900</span><br />
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<p class="smaller"> <a href="index.php" target="_top" title="Home"><img src="images/tng_home.gif" width="16" height="15" border="0" class="tngmenuicon" vspace="0" hspace="1" alt="Home"/>Home</a> <a href="searchform.php" title="Search"><img src="images/tng_search.gif" width="16" height="15" border="0" class="tngmenuicon" vspace="0" hspace="1" alt="Search"/>Search</a> <a href="login.php" title="Login - User: anonymous"><img src="images/tng_log.gif" width="16" height="15" border="0" class="tngmenuicon" vspace="0" hspace="1" alt="Login - User: anonymous"/>Login</a></p>
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<li><a id="a0" href="getperson.php?personID=I0071&tree=mac"><img src="images/tng_ind.gif" width="16" height="15" border="0" alt="" class="tngmenuicon"/>Individual</a></li>
<li><a id="a1" href="pedigree.php?personID=I0071&tree=mac" class="here"><img src="images/tng_ped.gif" width="16" height="15" border="0" alt="" class="tngmenuicon"/>Ancestors</a></li>
<li><a id="a2" href="descend.php?personID=I0071&tree=mac"><img src="images/tng_desc.gif" width="16" height="15" border="0" alt="" class="tngmenuicon"/>Descendants</a></li>
<li><a id="a3" href="relateform.php?primaryID=I0071&tree=mac"><img src="images/tng_rel.gif" width="16" height="15" border="0" alt="" class="tngmenuicon"/>Relationship</a></li>
<li><a id="a4" href="timeline.php?primaryID=I0071&tree=mac"><img src="images/tng_time.gif" width="16" height="15" border="0" alt="" class="tngmenuicon"/>Timeline</a></li>
<li><a id="a5" href="gedform.php?personID=I0071&tree=mac"><img src="images/tng_ged.gif" width="16" height="15" border="0" alt="" class="tngmenuicon"/>GEDCOM</a></li>
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<td valign="top" class="fieldnameback" style="padding: 0.2em 0em 0.2em .7em; border-right: 1px solid #777; border-bottom: 1px solid #777;"><span class="fieldname"><span class="smaller"> Generations:
<select name="generations" style="font-size:9px">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4" selected="selected">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option>
<option value="6">6</option>
<option value="7">7</option>
<option value="8">8</option>
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<a href="pedigree.php? personID=I0071&tree=mac&parentset=0&display=standard" class="lightlink3" onclick="this.href += '&generations=' + document.form1.generations.options[document.form1.generations.selectedIndex].value;">Standard</a> | <a href="ultraped.php? personID=I0071&tree=mac&parentset=0&display=compact" class="lightlink" onclick="this.href += '&generations=' + document.form1.generations.options[document.form1.generations.selectedIndex].value;">Compact</a> | <a href="pedigree.php? personID=I0071&tree=mac&parentset=0&display=box" class="lightlink" onclick="this.href += '&generations=' + document.form1.generations.options[document.form1.generations.selectedIndex].value;">Box</a> | <a href="pedigreetext.php? personID=I0071&tree=mac&parentset=0" class="lightlink" onclick="this.href += '&generations=' + document.form1.generations.options[document.form1.generations.selectedIndex].value;">Text</a> | <a href="ahnentafel.php? personID=I0071&tree=mac&parentset=0" class="lightlink" onclick="this.href += '&generations=' + document.form1.generations.options[document.form1.generations.selectedIndex].value;">Ahnentafel</a> | <a href="extrastree.php? personID=I0071&tree=mac&parentset=0&showall=1" class="lightlink" onclick="this.href += '&generations=' + document.form1.generations.options[document.form1.generations.selectedIndex].value;">Photos & Histories</a> </span></span> </td>
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<p> (Notes: You may have to scroll down or right to see chart. <img src="images/ArrowDown.gif" width="25" height="8" alt="" /> = Additional information <img src="images/Chart.gif" border="0" width="11" height="10" title=" = New pedigree" alt="" /> = New pedigree) </span></p>
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<td align="center" class="pboxname" height="61"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="getperson.php?personID=I0071&tree=mac">MacAleese James Anderson</a></span></td>
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<div style="position:absolute; top:317px;left:72px;z-index:7;cursor:pointer"><a href="#" onmouseover="showPopup(1, 250,61)">popup</a></div>
<div id="popup1" style="position:absolute; visibility:hidden; background-color:#DDDDDD; left:11px;z-index:8" onmouseover="cancelTimer(1)" onmouseout="setTimer(1)">
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<td class="pboxpopup" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-size:10pt">B: </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" colspan="3"><span style="font-size:10pt">1829</span></td>
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<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" colspan="3"><span style="font-size:10pt">Antrim, Ireland</span></td>
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<td class="pboxpopup" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-size:10pt">M: </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" colspan="3"><span style="font-size:10pt">20 Dec 1855</span></td>
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<td class="pboxpopup" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" colspan="3"><span style="font-size:10pt">Dover, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada</span></td>
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<td class="pboxpopup" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-size:10pt">D: </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" colspan="3"><span style="font-size:10pt">1 Mar 1900</span></td>
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<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" colspan="3"><span style="font-size:10pt">Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada</span></td>
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<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" colspan="4"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Family:</b> [<a href="familygroup.php?familyID=F0002&tree=mac">Group Sheet</a>]</span></td>
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<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>1</b></span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap" colspan="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="getperson.php?personID=I0082&tree=mac">O'Neal Mary Jane</a></span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"> <a href="pedigree.php?personID=I0082&tree=mac&display=standard"><img src="images/Chart.gif" border="0" width="11" height="10" title=" = New pedigree" alt="" /></a></span></td>
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<td class="pboxpopup" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" colspan="3"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Children</b></span></td>
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<td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt">• </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="getperson.php?personID=I0027&tree=mac">MacAleese Margaret</a></span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"> <a href="pedigree.php?personID=I0027&tree=mac&display=standard"><img src="images/Chart.gif" border="0" width="11" height="10" title=" = New pedigree" alt="" /></a></span></td>
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<td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt">• </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="getperson.php?personID=I0038&tree=mac">MacAleese Daniel</a></span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"> <a href="pedigree.php?personID=I0038&tree=mac&display=standard"><img src="images/Chart.gif" border="0" width="11" height="10" title=" = New pedigree" alt="" /></a></span></td>
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<td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt">• </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="getperson.php?personID=I0049&tree=mac">MacAleese John J.</a></span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"> <a href="pedigree.php?personID=I0049&tree=mac&display=standard"><img src="images/Chart.gif" border="0" width="11" height="10" title=" = New pedigree" alt="" /></a></span></td>
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<td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt">• </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="getperson.php?personID=I0060&tree=mac">MacAleese Annie Jane</a></span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"> <a href="pedigree.php?personID=I0060&tree=mac&display=standard"><img src="images/Chart.gif" border="0" width="11" height="10" title=" = New pedigree" alt="" /></a></span></td>
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<td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt">• </span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="getperson.php?personID=I0001&tree=mac">MacAleese William Stuart</a></span></td>
<td class="pboxpopup" valign="top" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="font-size:10pt"> <a href="pedigree.php?personID=I0001&tree=mac&display=standard"><img src="images/Chart.gif" border="0" width="11" height="10" title=" = New pedigree" alt="" /></a></span></td>
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