On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Pale Horse <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jatin Kumar wrote in post #984692:
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Pale Horse <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > itself but a glossary listing will also be available.
> >
> > Honestly, I'm not really sure what the best method of displaying the
> > definition on the page would be; I don't want the definition to be
> > obtrusive.
> >
> >> Where do you want to show the definition, and on what event, i mean is
> it
> >> like when you hover over the highlighted text or what?
>
> onmouseover
>
> When you are doing the matching using jQuery, you could change the content
of pages, in such a way that each matching word (highlighted word) is like
an anchor tag or simple text, which when hovered over, can do two things via
jQuery:

   1. Fire an ajax call to the server, asking for the description of the
   name.

or

      2.  Send the description alongwith the names in json format, and when
hovered over, display the description from the json object you have.

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