startColor="#cccccc";endColor="#ffffff;";stepIn=18;stepOut=25;autoFade=true;
/* set to true or false; true will cause all CSS
** classes with "fade" in them to fade onmouseover
***/
sloppyClass=false;hexa=new makearray(16);
for(var i=0;i<10;i++) hexa[i]=i;
hexa[10]="a";hexa[11]="b";hexa[12]="c";hexa[13]="d";hexa[14]="e";hexa[15]="f";
document.onmouseover = domouseover;document.onmouseout = domouseout;
startColor = dehexize(startColor.toLowerCase());
endColor = dehexize(endColor.toLowerCase());
var fadeId = new Array();
function dehexize(Color){
	var colorArr = new makearray(3);
	for (i=1; i<7; i++){
		for (j=0; j<16; j++){
			if (Color.charAt(i) == hexa[j]){
				if (i%2 !=0) colorArr[Math.floor((i-1)/2)]=eval(j)*16;
				else colorArr[Math.floor((i-1)/2)]+=eval(j);
			}
		}
	}	return colorArr;
}
function domouseover() {
  if(document.all){
  	var srcElement=event.srcElement;
  	if ((srcElement.tagName == "A" && autoFade) || srcElement.className == "fade" || (sloppyClass && srcElement.className.indexOf("fade") != -1))
        fade(startColor,endColor,srcElement.uniqueID,stepIn);      
   }
}
function domouseout() {
  if (document.all){
  	var srcElement=event.srcElement;
    if ((srcElement.tagName == "A" && autoFade) || srcElement.className == "fade" || (sloppyClass && srcElement.className.indexOf("fade") != -1))
        fade(endColor,startColor,srcElement.uniqueID,stepOut);
    }
}
function makearray(n){this.length=n;for(var i=1;i<= n;i++) this[i]=0;return this;}
function hex(i) {
    if (i < 0)
        return "00";
    else if (i > 255)
        return "ff";
    else
       return "" + hexa[Math.floor(i/16)] + hexa[i%16];}

function setColor(r, g, b, element) {
      var hr = hex(r); var hg = hex(g); var hb = hex(b);
      element.style.color = "#"+hr+hg+hb;
}
function fade(s,e, element,step){
var sr=s[0]; var sg=s[1]; var sb=s[2];
var er=e[0]; var eg=e[1]; var eb=e[2];	
if(fadeId[0] != null && fade[0] != element){
setColor(sr,sg,sb,eval(fadeId[0]));
		var i=1;
while(i<fadeId.length){clearTimeout(fadeId[i]);i++;}}		
for(var i=0;i<=step;i++){
fadeId[i+1]=setTimeout("setColor(Math.floor("+sr+" *(( "+step+" - "+i+" )/ "+step+" ) + "+er+" * ("+i+"/" +
step+")),Math.floor("+sg+" * (( "+step+" - "+i+" )/ "+step+" ) + "+eg+" * ("+i+"/"+step+
")),Math.floor("+sb+" * (("+step+"-"+i+")/"+step+") + "+eb+" * ("+i+"/"+step+")),"+element+");",i*step);
}fadeId[0]=element;}