• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
programming forums Java Mobile Certification Databases Caching Books Engineering Micro Controllers OS Languages Paradigms IDEs Build Tools Frameworks Application Servers Open Source This Site Careers Other Pie Elite all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
Marshals:
  • Campbell Ritchie
  • Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Ron McLeod
  • Paul Clapham
  • Liutauras Vilda
Sheriffs:
  • paul wheaton
  • Rob Spoor
  • Devaka Cooray
Saloon Keepers:
  • Stephan van Hulst
  • Tim Holloway
  • Carey Brown
  • Frits Walraven
  • Tim Moores
Bartenders:
  • Mikalai Zaikin

Best tooltip library?

 
author
Posts: 23951
142
jQuery Eclipse IDE Firefox Browser VI Editor C++ Chrome Java Linux Windows
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Newbie at Javascript -- so please be nice...


I am looking to add tooltips to an application, and is wondering.... is it easy to implement them with javascript? Or should I use a library?

I am also using JQuery. So, does that change anything? Meaning does JQuery have tool tips? via a plugin? Is it any good?


Any suggestions would be helpful here.

Thanks,
Henry
 
Sheriff
Posts: 67746
173
Mac Mac OS X IntelliJ IDE jQuery TypeScript Java iOS
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Search for "jQuery tooltip plugin".
 
Henry Wong
author
Posts: 23951
142
jQuery Eclipse IDE Firefox Browser VI Editor C++ Chrome Java Linux Windows
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
So... is the jQuery tooltip library the best tooltip library? Or since I am using jQuery anyway, I should just stay with jQuery?

Henry
 
Rancher
Posts: 43081
77
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I like DomTT (and haven't had a reason to look elsewhere, so I can't compare it to anything else).
 
Henry Wong
author
Posts: 23951
142
jQuery Eclipse IDE Firefox Browser VI Editor C++ Chrome Java Linux Windows
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Thanks everyone....

Ulf, I see the point. A tooltip library is not something elaborate enough that an evaluation for the "best" is needed. There is a limited set of features. Either you like it, or you don't.

Bear, I downloaded and trying out the JQuery tooltip library. Integration with JQuery should be a great selling point. So, I'll try it first.

Thanks again,
Henry

 
Henry Wong
author
Posts: 23951
142
jQuery Eclipse IDE Firefox Browser VI Editor C++ Chrome Java Linux Windows
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Bear, I downloaded and trying out the JQuery tooltip library. Integration with JQuery should be a great selling point. So, I'll try it first...



There are actually quite a few jQuery tooltip plugins, so, I really meant I downloaded the first one mentioned by google.

It didn't work very well. I do a lot of DOM manipulation (loading of data). It worked the first time, but when I reload data, and redo the DOM, it doesn't work when I tried to reset the tooltip.... Oh well.


The second jquery tooltip library (qtip) worked fine. Don't seem to be having any problems so far...

Henry
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic