Mouseover triggered before page load complete.

I have an application that contains an image map with mouseover and mouseout
events tied to each area of the map. The mouseover event displays a positioned
text element (inside div tags) that provides a description of area of the
image map. In some cases when the page is loading, it is possible for the
mouseover event to be triggered before the positioned and hidden text element
is actually loaded (or so it appears). When this happens, an error occurs
informing the user that the object to display cannot be found.

I tried moving the div tags to load before the image, but this seems to cause
problems for Netscape when rendering a <select> tag (it displays the text
as a paragraph, not a listbox). Any suggestions on how to prevent this error?

Thanks for any help.

"Will" <wvburke@lava.net> wrote:
>
>I have an application that contains an image map with mouseover and mouseout
>events tied to each area of the map. The mouseover event displays a positioned
>text element (inside div tags) that provides a description of area of the
>image map. In some cases when the page is loading, it is possible for the
>mouseover event to be triggered before the positioned and hidden text element
>is actually loaded (or so it appears). When this happens, an error occurs
>informing the user that the object to display cannot be found.
>
>I tried moving the div tags to load before the image, but this seems to
cause
>problems for Netscape when rendering a <select> tag (it displays the text
>as a paragraph, not a listbox). Any suggestions on how to prevent this
error?
>
>Thanks for any help.

You can replace the alt property of the image when the events fires

Why don't you try attaching your event handlers after the page is loaded?

"Will" <wvburke@lava.net> wrote:
>
>I have an application that contains an image map with mouseover and mouseout
>events tied to each area of the map. The mouseover event displays a positioned
>text element (inside div tags) that provides a description of area of the
>image map. In some cases when the page is loading, it is possible for the
>mouseover event to be triggered before the positioned and hidden text element
>is actually loaded (or so it appears). When this happens, an error occurs
>informing the user that the object to display cannot be found.
>
>I tried moving the div tags to load before the image, but this seems to
cause
>problems for Netscape when rendering a <select> tag (it displays the text
>as a paragraph, not a listbox). Any suggestions on how to prevent this
error?
>
>Thanks for any help.