The item they need help with

neven

It's not really necessary to go into great detail on what sort of project this code was found in; suffice to say that it pretends to be a user-friendly website. As for developer-friendly, well... Let's just look at these two functions out of a sea of them:

function cl()
{
text1=" Place the pointer over the item with which you need help.";
text2="";
writit(text2,'hspan');
writit(text1,'spanid');
}

function cl2()
{
text1 = " Place the pointer over the item with which you need help.";
text2 = "";

writit(text2, 'hspan');
writit(text1, 'spanid');

text1 = "";
text2 = "";

writit(text2, 'hspan2');
writit(text1, 'spanid2');
}

Manni

Good thing all those line breaks are bolded. They're so hard to read otherwise.

HeroreV

Does "writit" stand for "write it"? That would be hilarious.

neven

Of course. That part was not anonymized.