This week we'll teach you how to implement dynamic tooltips -- the small yellow bubbles that pop out in many applications. They appear when you move the cursor over a tool button or a designated text segment and vanish when the cursor is removed from the object. Tooltips are attractive to the user because they provide additional information about a given object, without cluttering the screen with unnecessary data. Tooltips are powerful because they are context sensitive.
- How to construct a tooltip with HTML.
- How to define a stylesheet for each tooltip on the page.
- How to associate a tooltip with a specific link via its event handlers.
- How to find out when the tooltip should be displayed.
- How to display a tooltip when required.
- How to clear a tooltip when the user removes the pointer from the link.
- How to associate a tooltip with multiple links that share the same URL.
Created: March 26, 1998
Revised: March 26, 1998