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Cross-Browser Interactive Tooltips

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Client User Group
HTML, CSS and XML
Language
JavaScript
Product
IE4, IE5, NS4
Task
Cross-Browser DHTML, Layout Enhancement, Link Management, Menus/ Popups
Technology
DHTMLLib, Dynamic Positioning

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Developer's Paradise : Inside Technique :
Cross-Browser Interactive Tooltips
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Short Description
A DHTMLLib cross-browser version of our Internet Explorer Interactive Tooltips.

Long Description

With the help of our DHTMLLib we updated our original Interactive Tooltip technique to run cross-browser.

See the original article to learn the techniques used in the script or continue onward to see step-by-step how to add interactive tooltips to your page.

Author: Scott Isaacs
Date/ Version: 7/21/1999
Submission URL: http://www.SiteExperts.com/tips/styles/ts34/page1cb.asp
Submission Date: Jul 21,1999
Last Update: Jul 21,1999

Related To
Inside Techniques Interactive Tooltips for Internet Explorer (7/16/1999 4:15:51 PM)

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Overall Rating: 4.2

tdumas6 on Apr 27, 2001 at 2:13:09 PM Rating: 4
It apparently does not work at all with NN6.01! I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed!
Qaium on Apr 19, 2000 at 8:35:46 AM Rating: 4
Hai Scott, This article is fine but I need tooptip to popup for input tag,because netscape does not support title while i,e does.No brower cross-compatibility.Expecting quick reply With Warm Regards, Qaium qaium.Abdul@marlborough-stirling.com
Blazing Trout on Apr 6, 2000 at 8:51:09 PM Rating: 3
This is OK, but for something with more pizzaz, try using overLIB at
<a href="http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/">
http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/</a> which allow you to even use graphics with your tooltip! See some of their examples at <a href="http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/features.html">http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/</a> which includes a transparent gif as a tool tip. Very good crossbrowser capabilities, html within the tooltip, options on how it looks, behaves, etc... Ummm... I guess I'm being overenthusiastic, but check it out. One of the best features is that it is free to use. Not trying to knock this article (I enjoyed seeing how it worked), and as a teaching article it's very good, but the look of overLIB just can't (at least for now) be beat.
Lisa19 on Apr 5, 2000 at 3:43:33 AM Rating: 4
Good idea. Got it working in IE and NS with one tooltip. Having problems in NS with two tooltips. The second tooltip table is always shown ABOVE the link to the first tooltip. This works in IE.
Any ideas?
zonia on Feb 8, 2000 at 3:45:02 AM Rating: 5
I liked this script very much. I write help files and this script worked fine when compiling the html help. However I did have one problem. I was able to get the dhtmllib2 and the interactive tooltips javascript to work in a global javascript file but I never could get the tooltip content (div...) to work unless they were on the page they were being called from. Is there anyway to get them to work in a global file?

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