Comments on: Roll-Over Translations

Question: Roll-Over Translations

Holly — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:33:48 -0800

I'm a newbie at HTML and CSS and all, but I'd like to introduce a function in my blog posts where the mouse rolls over a word and a Spanish translation pops up in a box. Ask Me-Fi whizz-kids: are there any plugins, on any of the common blogging platforms, which will let me do this?

By: elle.jeezy

elle.jeezy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:39:54 -0800

Dynamic Drive

By: jammy

jammy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:09:53 -0800

You might want to check out Lingro - it has the rollover feature you described.

By: loiseau

loiseau — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:52:09 -0800

I would just do this:

<span title="in spanish, cerveza">beer</span>

If you wanted you could add a class="translation" and make it format in some standard way that stands out.

By: Fence

Fence — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:44:14 -0800

I use the span option as you can see on my post here, I also use the style option to change the colour.
or you could use Linknotes plugin with Wordpress to put the translations in the web version of footnotes.