Showing posts with label JQuery tooltip javascript simple free. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JQuery tooltip javascript simple free. Show all posts

Monday, April 26, 2010

Simplest JQuery ToolTips

Well I think I may have developed the simplest tooltips possible using JQuery. Everything out there seemed too fancy and took too much space, so I just whipped up something super simple. All you need is the amazing JQuery library, this javascript method:

$(document).ready(function(){enableTooltips(verticalOffset, horizontalOffset)}) // Set these values how you like, I used 35, 0

function enableTooltips(topOffset, leftOffset)
{
$('[tooltipText]').bind(
{
mouseover: function() {
if ($('#tooltip').length == 0)
$('body').append('
')
var o = $(this).offset()
o.top += topOffset;o.left += leftOffset
$('#tooltip').css(o).html($(this).attr('tooltipText'))
.stop(true).animate({n:0},1000).fadeTo(300,1)
.animate({n:0},5000).fadeTo(500,0)
},
mouseout: function() {
$('#tooltip').stop(true).animate({nothing:0},500).fadeTo(500,0)
}
});
}

And some css like this:

#tooltip {
font:normal 12px Verdanna, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1000;
border: 1px solid #111;
background-color: #eee;
padding: 2px;
opacity: 0;
filter:alpha(opacity=0);
}

On the items you want tooltips just put a tooltipText property like this:

<input type="submit" src="ButtonHome.gif" tooltiptext="Go to home">

and you win! JQuery is amazing!