I did something small and similar that could help you - the source code can be view sourced if you want... or I can dig it out. I can't say it is incredibly elegant; it is just a test. Here:<br><br> <a href="http://beta.meadan.org/?search=peace">
http://beta.meadan.org/?search=peace</a><br><br> - a<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Dege</b> <<a href="mailto:jdege@korterra.com">jdege@korterra.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">We are designing a system that will have an OpenLayers map with either a<br>WFS or a GML layer. The features on this layer will have attributes.
<br>We would like to display these features to the user. The openmnnd<br>example shows, pretty clearly, how to select a feature with either a<br>click or a mouseover. But the information is displayed in a div outside<br>
the map.<br><br>But the folks here are half-sold on the idea of displaying the info in a<br>tool-tip - a pop-up box that displays the info and goes away when the<br>mouse does. Or if not a tool-tip, something that looks and acts like a
<br>tool-tip.<br><br>Should I be digging into OpenLayers.Popup?<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Users@openlayers.org">Users@openlayers.org</a><br><a href="http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users">
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