Cant get mousover to work in custom sidebox

10 Oct 2013, 8:35 PM

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Cant get mousover to work in custom sidebox

Help please, site is https://www.halloweenfunshop.com/index.php (I have a temp site in index.html) and I created my own sidebox named Coupon on the upper left.

I have the following code in the includes/templates/responsive_apparel_boutique/sideboxes/tpl_coupon_sidebox.php:

<?php $content = '<div> <a href="coupon.html"> <img src="images/storecoupon2.jpg" onmouseover="this.src='images/storecouponroll2.jpg'" onmouseout=" this.src='images/storecoupon2.jpg'"></a> </div>' ?>

Why doesnt this work? If I remove the mouseover/outs it shows a single image with the link just fine. Im stumped on something really simple.

Thanks.

10 Oct 2013, 9:49 PM

drbyte

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Re: Cant get mousover to work in custom sidebox

Mismatched quotation marks. You have single-quotes embedded inside another set of single-quotes, and thus they are not taking effect because they're being treated as the end of the string sooner than you intended. If you intend to embed single-quotes inside another set of single-quotes, you'll need to prepend a \ to "escape" them so they're treated as literal characters. This applies in all programming languages.

example: $var = 'this is a string of text which means I've gotta escape the quotes used inside it';
ie: if it starts and ends with single-quotes, then escape all single-quotes.
or, if it starts and ends with double-quotes, then escape all double-quotes.

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10 Oct 2013, 10:15 PM

creff

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Re: Cant get mousover to work in custom sidebox

you da man. Thank you, worked perfectly.