jquery hover tooltip

Question

please, guide me with sample code for,

displaying tooltip message on hover using jquery.

Answer 1

Why don't you look for a tooltip plugin on the jquery site?

Answer 2

take a look at the jQuery Tooltip plugin. You can pass in an options object for different options.

There are also other alternative tooltip plugins available, of which a few are

• Random.Next()'s jQuery AJAX tooltip

• dhtml goodies AJAX tooltip

• clueTip

Take look at the demos and documentation and please update your question if you have specific questions about how to use them in your code.

Answer 3

Examples of use of one such jQuery Tooltip plugin.

Answer 4

Tooltip plugin might be too heavyweight for what you need. Simply set the 'title' attribute with the text you desire to show in your tooltip.

$("#yourElement").attr('title', 'This is the hover-over text');

Answer 5

I suggest qTip.