
This animated JavaScript tooltip script is very easy to use and lightweight at only 2kb. It is tested working in IE6+, Firefox, Opera and Safari. Jacob Gube of Six Revisions has posted the script and a walk-through of the code and the logic.
Community support is available here. Paid support is also available, contact me for details.
One thing that I’ve always struggled with in the past when using floating tooltips like this is detecting the edge of the window so that the display of a tooltip does not cause scrollbars or display outside of the currently visible portion of the window. I’ve hacked my way around it, but there are still cases where the tooltip displays out of the visible portion of the window. I’d love to see you address this at some point as you seem to develop some very elegant solutions to common issues.
Darryl on June 04, 2008 at 9:32 am