Here is the pop and kill function snipped straight from the cgi. Thanks for your help !me. 
<style TYPE="text/css">
<!--
body{
overflow:scroll;overflow-x:hidden
}
.popper
{
position : absolute;
visibility : hidden;
}
//-->
</style>

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<SCRIPT>

var nav = (document.layers);
var iex = (document.all);
var skn = (nav) ? document.topdeck : topdeck.style;
if (nav) document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE);
document.onmousemove = get_mouse;

function pop(msg,bak)
{

var content ="<TABLE WIDTH=130 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=0 BG
+COLOR=#000000><TR><TD><TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSP
+ACING=0><TR><TD><CENT
ER><FONT COLOR=#FFFFFF SIZE=2><B>Detailed Info</B></FONT></CENTER></TD
+></TR></TABLE><TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=0 
+BGCOLOR="+bak+"><TR><
TD><FONT COLOR=#000000 SIZE=2><CENTER>"+msg+"</CENTER></FONT></TD></TR
+></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE>";

  if (nav)
  {
    skn.document.write(content);
          skn.document.close();
          skn.visibility = "visible";
  }
    else if (iex)
  {
          document.all("topdeck").innerHTML = content;
          skn.visibility = "visible";
  }
}

function get_mouse(e)
{
        var x = (nav) ? e.pageX : event.x+document.body.scrollLeft;
        var y = (nav) ? e.pageY : event.y+document.body.scrollTop;
        skn.left = x - 60;
  skn.top  = y+20;
}

function kill()
{
  skn.visibility = "hidden";
} </SCRIPT>

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Java script question by swarddb
in thread Java script question by swarddb

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