Looking for a Tooltip.

May 6th, 2008 by Matt

If anyone doesn’t know what a Tooltip, its a little block of text (or an image) that shows up when you hover over a link. I’ve went looking for a simple JavaScript Tooltip in order to add it to a site I was working on, and got pretty overwhelmed with the results.

Right now there are way too many sources of code out there for this. I found myself sifting through endless amounts of Google search results looking for an option that was non-bloated code and easily styled. Thank god for codeeazy.com. Their Tooltip is very simple to implement, only a few lines of JavaScript code, and works like a charm. It displays both images and text, and the text can be styled just like it was in a div because, in fact, it is. It really opens up a lot of options for a web designer and makes it easy if you don’t know much (or anything) about JavaScript. There are no crazy fade effects or mouse tracing effects, which I feel distracts from the content. Enough doors are opened with the ability to manipulate the content via CSS.

Anyway, just thought I would pass it along. Check out codeeazy’s blog here.