Ids have to be unique, there is no way around it, that's the standard.
See if this suits you:
http://satyam.com.ar/yui/2.5.0/definitions.html
Satyam
dateimoerder wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a teacher and I'm really just getting into CSS / Javascript, so be
> gentle I've only just popped my cherry.
>
> So far I've successfully figured out a system which allows a given
> word within a body of text to both have a tooltip popup box, as well
>; as a panel pop up for it when clicked.
>
> My intent is to create a series of webpages that contain assignment
> information for students, such as how to complete a project. The hope
>; is that I can code this page in such a way that all the 'difficult'
> words contain a tooltip with a basic definition, and then have a panel
> that will pop up when they are clicked with a much more indepth
> definition, including a pronunciation guide and wave file that when an
> Icon is clicked the student can listen to the definition (for those
> with disabilities / language issues).
>
>; Here are the problems I forsee and would like help with avoiding:
>
> Firstly, through my testing I have discovered that only the first
> instance of a particular id within a page will launch my tooltip or
> the panel. This is problematic because though most students will 'get
>; it' that the first instance is the only clickable one, I would like
>; all of them to function the same. I do not feel like coding a whole
> bunch of ID's and entries for those ID's to make that work... who would?
>
> Ive seen some stuff related to groupIDs but at my current level of
> understanding I really cant make sense of it. Can someone explicate
> this a bit further for me. I'm not dumb... I just dont have the
> rudiments down.
>
> Secondly, I've done some limited testing to attempt to make it so that
>; the in-depth glossary entries are not in-line to the page, but rather
> that they are external held in .html files in a sub-directory called
> /glossary/. This would be an ideal setup because it would allow me to
> link to pages in the glossary directory for the content of my panels
> so that I would only need to change those .html files in order to
> change content over multiple assignment pages.
>
> The problem I'm facing with this is that my limited CSS / HTML
>; knowledge doesnt seem to be cutting it. I attempted using a frame
> within the panel to show the content, but it doesnt even show the
> content of the referenced html file.
>
> Regards-
> Robert "Dateimoerder" Ralph
>
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