JScript inside PHP

Anon

I have the following JScript that simulates the browser back button:

This works fine, but it leaves this code in the status bar when the user mouses over it.

So I tried adding this snippet of code to the script (which came out of the JS Bible) to overwrite the status message with my own:

onMouseOver=\"window.status=\'Go Back\'; return true\"

with the final code as:

But I keep getting a script error. I suspect I am not adding in the second command correctly.

Any suggestions?

steved

Try it without backslashing the single quotes around your Go Back

You also might want to add a onMouseOut event to clear out the status bar like:

onMouseOut="window.status=' '; return true"

Anon

Here is the final code:

<TD ALIGN=LEFT BGCOLOR=\"$Color1\"><A href=\"javascript: history.go(-1);\" onMouseOver=\"window.status='Go Back'; return true\"; onMouseOut=\"window.status=''; return true;
\"><b>$Caption1</b></A></TD>

This is actually part of a PHP function that I call for placing buttons on the form. The buttons are part of a table. This button is the "Go Back" button.

$Color1 is the background color for the button. $Caption1 is the button caption (actually the link name).

Now when the user mouses over the button he gets the status bar caption "Go Back" and when he mouses away from the button the caption is erased.

I like the idea of having a function for this button placement because it only takes a single function call on each form that uses these buttons. It's a lot less coding, and should I need to change anything, I just change it in one place.

I love PHP.