HTML help

Steve Herminghausen sherming at worthington.lib.oh.us
Wed Mar 22 09:31:04 EST 2000


I created a "Harry Potter Jeopardy" type game for our library using HTML.
The idea was simple enough for a single use.  Start out with a table with
the categories, etc. that looks like the Jeopardy screen.  Click on
"Hogwarts for 200" which is a link to the page with the "answer" for that
square.  People give the response in the form of a question.  Click on a
back button, and you return to the main Jeopardy board which now does not
display "200" because the visited link color is set to the same color as the
background.  This works great for a single use, but if somebody wanted to
play the game twice they'd have to clear their history of visiting the
"potter" site.

We're considering posting a version of this game on our website, but I need
suggestions on the multiple use/visited link site problem.  I'm thinking
that I'll probably have to do some JavaScript work to get what I want (links
to visited questions aren't visible anymore during the session the game is
played, or history of visited links could be cleared easily without having
to explain to people how to clear the history), but I'm not sure where to
start.  Any suggestions?  Consider me new to but willing to learn
JavaScript.

Steve Herminghausen
Reference Librarian
Northwest Library
2280 Hard Rd.
Columbus, OH 43235


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