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jQuery (mb)Tooltip 1.6! a beautiful alternative

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mbtooltip

Nice tooltip for yor page!

Now you can replace the ugly default tooltip with this smart and nice one!

demo page:
http://www.open-lab.com/mb.ideas/index.html#mbTooltip

download page:
http://mbideasproject.googlecode.com/files/jquery.mbTooltip.1.6.zip

jQuery project page:
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/mbTooltip

Releases:

1.6

Major bugfix:

  • had problem with “select” elements. fixed

1.1.0

Major bugfix:

  • shadowTop and shadowLeft now works
  • disable and enable mbTooltip now work in all browsers

1.0.0 first release


dependencies:

jquery.timers.js
jquery.dropshadow.js

How does it work:

here is the js call:

$(function(){
$("[title]").mbTooltip({
opacity : .90, //opacity
wait:500, //before show
ancor:"mouse", //"parent"
cssClass:"default", // default = default
timePerWord:70, //time to show in milliseconds per word
hasArrow:false,
color:"white",
imgPath:"images/",
shadowColor:"black",
fade:500
});
})

here is the code for the dom elements:

<h2 title="here it is my tooltip!">try to mouseOver each of the text in this page... wait just few seconds... and...</h2>
...

<span
title="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" style=" background:black;padding:5px; -moz-border-radius:5px">prova tooltip (span)</span>
...
...

How to use it

Sipmply by placing a “title” atribute with your content as value; be careful on using quote or doublequote or tag opening for html! it’s thought as a simple description container .

Written by Matteo Bicocchi

February 7, 2009 at 2:28 pm

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  1. Hi Matteo,
    can’t let the script work well with jQuery.noConflict(); , firebug always tells me that “$ is undefined”.

    Simone

    February 9, 2009 at 7:40 am

  2. Hi, nice work, one of your demo pages is not loading.. javaScirpt Tree demo. browser saying page not found.

    Nilesh

    February 10, 2009 at 3:16 am

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  4. hey, one more note on the Button styles,

    FF2 fails to render them correctly,
    to fix this issue:

    i added: to A tag

    display:block; /*opera*/
    display:inline-block; /*ie*/
    display:-moz-inline-box; /*ff*/

    else button width will go out of control in FF2 and maybe other browsers.

    Nilesh

    February 12, 2009 at 11:04 pm

    • Hi Nilesh,
      Thank a lot for your bugfix!
      I’m not using FF2 anymore and I couldn’t test it.
      Thnx again.

      Matteo

      Matteo Bicocchi

      February 13, 2009 at 9:30 am

  5. Hi,
    I was looking for a tooltip jquery plugin with an enable/disable capability, and thus was very happy to found your plugin. Anyway, I’ve found two little bugs:

    1) Options shadowLeft and shadowTop are not taken into account. You may change the call to dropShadow to $(“#tooltip”).dropShadow({left: this.options.shadowLeft, top: this.options.shadowTop, blur: 3, opacity: 0.4, color:this.options.shadowColor});

    2) disableTooltip and enableTooltip won’t work in IE6 (and possibly other browsers), because the tooltipEnable attribute is not a string: change attr(“tooltipEnable”,false) to attr(“tooltipEnable”,”false”) (and same thing for true). Three changes in the code.

    Thank you for this plugin.

    Medou

    February 20, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    • Hi Medou,
      Thnx a lot for your contribute!
      I’ll incude your suggestions on next release.
      Bye,
      Matteo

      Matteo Bicocchi

      February 20, 2009 at 1:32 pm

  6. Hi, I just wanted to say that you make some of the most awesome stuff I see over on the jquery plugin page. Thank you for providing these for general consumption.

    Scott

    February 21, 2009 at 11:26 pm

  7. Hey MAN!

    Thank you very much, very nice plugin!

    Best Regards
    Elman Vebs aka pompey

    pompey

    February 26, 2009 at 5:02 am

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  13. Hi,
    I use your mbTooltip plugin for a project that I’m developing and I love it. However, I was integrating it with the ui.dialogs plugin, displaying tooltips inside the dialog itself and I found that, since dialog assign their own z-index dynamically, the tooltip will always show in the back. To fix this, I did two things. First, I added a new option in your options object named afterShow, which takes in a function. Then, at end of the buildTooltip function I added:

    if(typeof(this.options.afterShow) == “function”)
    this.options.afterShow(this, $(“#tooltip”));

    This makes it so that if a function is assigned to the option aftershow, it runs it after the tooltip is shown.

    Second, on my tooltip declaration, I add the option:

    afterShow: function(i, e)
    {
    var z = i.closest(“.ui-dialog”).css(“z-index”) + 10;
    jQuery(e).css(‘z-index’, z);
    }

    This ensures that the z-index is updated to always be in the front.

    I did not know if you were interested in code contributions (I couldn’t find a place to contact you directly), but I figure I post it in case is helps someone.

    Please feel free to contact me if you would like to see the actual file modification.

    Thank you for a great plugin!

    German Kalinec

    German Kalinec

    April 24, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    • Thnx German.
      A more generic way to be shure the tooltip is in front of all the other elements:

      jQuery.fn.mb_BringToFront= function(){
      var zi=10;
      $('*').each(function() {
      if($(this).css("position")=="absolute"){
      var cur = parseInt($(this).css('zIndex'));
      zi = cur > zi ? parseInt($(this).css('zIndex')) : zi;
      }
      });
      $(this).css('zIndex',zi+=1);
      };

      and then add after line 102:
      $(".dropShadow").mb_BringToFront();
      $("#tooltip").mb_BringToFront();

      Matteo Bicocchi

      April 24, 2009 at 9:36 pm

  14. hi Matteo,
    how to disable tooltip, any parameter to tweak, at page startup? thanks.
    # Chan

    Chan

    April 26, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    • Hi Chan Su,
      to disable tooltip at startup add: $(document).disableTooltip()
      just after initializing tooltips.
      bye,
      Matteo

      Matteo Bicocchi

      April 26, 2009 at 7:16 pm

      • it works great now. thanks Matteo!

        Chan

        April 27, 2009 at 4:45 am

  15. ciao matteo, utile questo script. ho notato però che con ie, vicino all’angolo rosso in alto a sx c’è una piccola ombra. sai come è possibile rimuoverla?

    titti

    May 12, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    • Ciao Titti,
      hai provato a inizializzarlo senza ombra?… hasShadow:false
      oppue a togliere la freccina rossa: hasArrow:false (noi, nelle nostre applicazioni, lo usiamo senza freccina ed il difetto che descrivi non c’è…
      ciao,
      Matteo

      Matteo Bicocchi

      May 12, 2009 at 5:01 pm

  16. Matteo, I keep getting the following error in Firefox (v3.0.11):

    Error: setting a property that has only a getter
    Source File: http://localhost/lib/js/mbTooltip.js
    Line: 29

    Here’s line #29: “fade:200″

    In IE8, I get this error:

    Message: Not implemented

    Line: 16
    Char: 7
    Code: 0
    URI: http://localhost/lib/js/mbTooltip.js

    Any ideas? Love your work, by the way!

    John Ragland

    June 13, 2009 at 4:21 pm

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  20. Is there a way to have line breaks in a tooltip? Also, your sample shows use of a “tooltip” attribute whereas the docs say the “title” attribute is used.

    Thanks, great work.

    ChrisP

    July 3, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    • Hi ChrisP,
      for the line breaks:
      just add a BR tag in your title text.
      You are right,
      the tooltip attribute was not W3C compliant; you have to add just the title…
      I’ll correct the demo.
      bye
      Matteo

      Matteo Bicocchi

      July 3, 2009 at 11:30 pm

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    September 11, 2009 at 12:56 am

  24. very thankssss!!!

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  30. very thankssss

    Fatih

    October 31, 2009 at 7:04 am

  31. Hello Marco,
    i have found your script is not working correctly if you quickly change target.
    For example: if i have 2 images side by side, both with title attributes and you change quickly from first to second, the second one will not show the tooltip. In this case you must leave and return on it to see the tooltip.
    Any suggestion?

    Another thing: sometimes the tooltip flickers if it’s positioned too close to the mouse cursor and you go over it
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