Extremely simple example of turning background colors of the cells of the table on and off with mouse events to simulate a chalkboard. You can add more rows and columns.
Very easy to understand wayof making the background colorof a table cell change on rollover.Very simple small short stripof code to add-- and perfecto ;)
Mouse-events.html is a template for handling three basic mouse events: Moving, pressing down on a button, and releasing the button. It works in IE 5+ and should also work in NS 6+. When used in conjunction with DHTML, this can be used to create drag and drop web applications. The three handlers return a true value, changing it to false causes some default browser behaviours, like text highlighting, to become disabled.
This comprehensive tutorial explains various implementations of JavaScript rollovers. It discusses: How to use the document.images object, How to make your rollovers backward compatible, How to create an instance of the Image object, How to combine several rollovers to create a menu, How to create multiple rollovers, How to ensure maximum "transition" quality, and How to create nested rollovers.