«
CSS Tooltips
This is a simple demonstration of using custom CSS tooltips as a drop-in replacement for the browser-based title attribute. No time like the present—
Everyone should visit
Wikipedia!
Wikipedia! on Wiki
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
/* css/tooltip.css -- fancy tooltips */
span.tool {
position: relative; /* this is key */
cursor: help;
}
span.tool span.tip {
display: none; /* so is this */
}
/* tooltip will display on :hover event */
span.tool:hover span.tip {
display: block;
z-index: 100;
position: absolute;
top: 1.6em;
left: 0;
width: auto;
padding: 3px 7px 4px 6px;
border: 1px solid #336;
background-color: #f7f7ee;
font: normal 0.9em/1.2em arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: left;
color: #000;
}
#content span.tool::after {
padding-left: 2px; /* eye candy */
content: url(/img/bubble.gif);
}
/* css/tooltip.css */
Didn’t find what you were looking for? Try searching drx for many other helpful CSS resources.
Last updated: Monday, October 20th, 2008 @ 4:36 PM EDT [2008-10-20T20:36:21Z]
