You can fake the title tooltip behavior with Javascript. When you click/tab on an element with a title attribute, a child element with the title text will be appended. Click again and it gets removed. Javascript (done with jQuery): $(“spanTooltips for mobile browsers”).click(function () { var $title = $(this).find(“.title”); if (!$title.length) { $(this).append(‘<span class=”title”>’ + … Read more
For default tooltip behavior simply add the title attribute. This can’t contain images though. <div title=”regular tooltip”>Hover me</div> Before you clarified the question I did this up in pure JavaScript, hope you find it useful. The image will pop up and follow the mouse. jsFiddle JavaScript var tooltipSpan = document.getElementById(‘tooltip-span’); window.onmousemove = function (e) { … Read more
The easiest way is to use the native HTML title attribute: <img src=”https://stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico” style=”cursor:pointer;” title=”Stack Overflow”> But if you need more, try the tooltip widget provided by jQuery UI since version 1.9.
Note: Solution for Bootstrap 3.3+ Simple Solution In the .tooltip() call, set the container option to body: $(function () { $(‘[data-toggle=”tooltip”]’).tooltip({ container : ‘body’ }); }); Alternatively you can do the same by using the data-container attribute: <p data-toggle=”tooltip” data-placement=”left” data-container=”body” title=”hi”>some text</p> Why does this work? This solves the problem because by default, the … Read more
It seems in the 2 years since this was asked, the other browsers have caught up (at least on Windows… not sure about others). You can set a “title” attribute on the option tag: <option value=”” title=”Tooltip”>Some option</option> This worked in Chrome 20, IE 9 (and its 8 & 7 modes), Firefox 3.6, RockMelt 16 … Read more
Here’s an example with a box-shadow, all latest version browsers should support this http://jsfiddle.net/MZXCj/1/ HTML: <div id=”toolTip”> <p>i can haz css tooltip</p> <div id=”tailShadow”></div> <div id=”tail1″></div> <div id=”tail2″></div> </div> CSS: body {font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;} #toolTip { position:relative; } #toolTip p { padding:10px; background-color:#f9f9f9; border:solid 1px #a0c7ff; -moz-border-radius:5px;-ie-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;-o-border-radius:5px;border-radius:5px; } #tailShadow { position:absolute; bottom:-8px; left:28px; width:0;height:0; border:solid 2px #fff; … Read more
You have to add a ToolTip control to your form first. Then you can set the text it should display for other controls. Here’s a screenshot showing the designer after adding a ToolTip control which is named toolTip1:
Try using entity codes such as 
 for CR, 
 for LF, and 	 for TAB. For example: <div title=”1)	A
2)	B”>Hover Me</div>
If you wrap the tooltip in <html> and </html> tags, you can break lines with <br> tags. See https://web.archive.org/web/20060625031340/http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=10653 for examples and discussion. Main take-awy from that discussion: fButton.setToolTipText(“<html><font face=\”sansserif\” color=\”green\”>first line<br>second line</font></html>”); Or you can use the JMultiLineToolTip class that can be found many places on the net, including https://github.com/ls-cwi/yoshiko-app/blob/master/src/main/java/com/yoshiko/internal/view/JMultiLineToolTip.java
Can you use simply the SVG <title> element and the default browser rendering it conveys? (Note: this is not the same as the title attribute you can use on div/img/spans in html, it needs to be a child element named title) rect { width: 100%; height: 100%; fill: #69c; stroke: #069; stroke-width: 5px; opacity: 0.5 … Read more