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Help on Help

Miriam Rubin
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Looking for alternate 'Help' displays that don't compromise on gui real estate.

I do not want my help information to the right of each field since it takes up a lot of real estate, especially is the help is long.
I do not want an 'Alert' displayed when I hover over the field because I do not want the user to click 'OK' each time.

I am looking to display help information when a user hovers over a part of the field, without becoming a nuisance to the user who does not need the help info.

Does anyone have any innovative ideas?

I've created a read-only 'Help' field for each AFC that gets populated w/ Help infor when a user hovers over a particular field in the AFC, but would want something a little better.
Thanks!

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People have implemented tool-tip type help displays, when you mouse-over a particular field.  This is pretty straightforward JavaScript, triggered by a mouseover event.  A Google search even brings up some shareware JavaScript libraries that provide this functionality.