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Showing a tooltip on a non-focused ToolStripItem

ToolStripItems show Active highlighting when you mouse over them, even if the form they are in is not in focus. They do not, however, show their tooltips, unless the form is focused. I have seen the ToolStrip 'click-though' hack. Anyone know how to make a ToolStripButton show its tooltip when its parent form is not in focus? Thank...

Text Alignment on OwnerDraw Tooltip in C# / .NET

I have a multiline text string (e.g. "Stuff\nMore Stuff\nYet More Stuff"), and I want to paint it, along with a bitmap into a tooltip. Since I am painting the bitmap, I need to set OwnerDraw to true, which I am doing. I am also handling the Popup event, so I can size the tooltip to be large enough to hold the text and the bitmap. I am ...

jQuery tooltip not working in IE

I am using the jquery tooltip and here is the code for it this.tooltip = function() { var xOffset = -10; var yOffset = -175; $("a.tooltip").hover(function(e) { this.t = this.title; this.title = ""; ...

How can I use a carriage return in a HTML tooltip ?

Hi, I'm currently adding verbose tooltips to our site, and I'd like (without having to resort to a whizz-bang jQuery plugin, I klnow there are many!) to use carriage returns to format the tooltip. To add the tip I'm using the 'title' attribute. I've looked around the usual sites and using the basic template of: <a title='Tool?Tip?On?N...

Line break in title attribute of span

I've got a span that I'm using as a tooltip for a checkbox on a web page, and I want there to be a line break in the tooltip. None of the following have worked: <span title='This<br />is a tooltip'></span> <span title='This is a tooltip'></span> document.getElementById('mySpan').setAttribute('title', 'this\nis a tooltip'); Is this e...

Showing a tooltip behind the google ads

I want a tooltip appear behind the google ads. I am using using a tooltip from http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/prototip/ and when I hover near the google ads the tooltip displays behind the ads, I'm using firefox 2.0. ...

Anchoring a Windows Forms Tooltip to the mouse

I want to show a tooltip when hovering over a button and as long as the mouse is over the button the tooltip should follow the mouse. What is the correct way to achieve that? When I add a MouseMove event that calls tooltip.Show(...) with the updated mouse position it flickers extremely, and also redraws the tooltip when the mouse rests....

Lining up the text in a tool tip, with the text in a combobox

I see a lot of programs where if the text doesn't fit inside the bounds of the control, you can put your mouse over the control and the tooltip text will show you the full unclipped text, and also the tooltip text lines up completly with the text in the control. I'm trying to do that with a combobox in VB 2005 (.net version 2.0). In th...

wpf tooltip not shown on usercontrol or its children

Hi, I have a canvas with user controls arranged on it. When a tooltip is assigned to the usercontrol or one of its children, that tooltip does not show (open event does not get fired either). I do not explicitly disable any of them. I've placed plenty of tooltips elsewhere in the application and they all show, except the ones on the use...

Is it possible to format an HTML tooltip?

Apologies if this is a n00b question but I can't find a straight answer anywhere. Is it possible for format an HTML tooltip? E.g. I have a DIV with attribute title="foo!". When I have text-size of my browser zoomed in or out in, the text size of the tooltip remains unchanged. Is there a way to make the tooltip font scale with the bro...

How do I format the tooltip used by a DataGridView in virtual mode?

I need to apply formatting - specifically, bold text - to the tooltip used by a DataGridView in virtual mode. I can set the text in the CellToolTipTextNeeded event, but it doesn't support HTML tags; is there some other syntax I should be using? I don't want to have to reimplement tooltip support myself. ...

Showing a tooltip inside a datagrid

I'm trying to show a windows forms tooltip inside a datagrid to highlight an error. The problem I have is that everytime I call tooltip.Show("You have an error", datagrid, 0, 0), The tooltip is confined within the datagrids boundaries and doesn't go outside, which ultimately means the tooltip itself covers up the actual row where the e...

Recommendations for jQuery tooltips

I am looking for tooltip plugins for jQuery that would allow for the following type of behavior. <a href="somewhere.html"> <span> <img src="someimage.jpg" style="display: none;" /> Here is the tooltip content. </span> Here is the link to somewhere. </a> The behavior that I am hoping for is to hover over "Here is the link to som...

CSS tooltip for simple text

I would like to use tooltip in a web page with the following constraints: Tooltip should work with simple texts, not only with anchors. I do not want to use javascript, only css. I would like to make it work at least in Firefox and Internet Explorer. A promising candidate is Eric Meyer's solution, but it uses anchors. Loadaveragezero...

WinForms ToolTip will not re-appear after first use.

I have a Forms C# application where I would like to use a toolTip on one of the text boxes. I Initialize the tool-tip in the constructor of the Form class, and it works the first time. So when I hover over the text box with my mouse it works, but once the toolTip times out and it goes away, it does not re-appear when I move my mouse awa...

gwt ext tooltip and panel

hi, i am adding the tooltip to the panels.i have to check weather the tooltip is added to the panel or not. Thanks Usman ...

How do I move a tooltip?

I'm using the CellToolTipTextNeeded event of a DataGridView, and the tooltip is being shown under the mouse. I can get the ToolTip object out via reflection, but I don't have any control over where it's positioned since I'm not the one calling Show(). How do I move a tooltip? ...

What are your favorite JavaScript libraries/scripts for creating tooltips on the web?

I've used jTip (jQuery plugin) and overLIB in the past. Are there any others I should be looking into...any accepted "best" one? ...

tooltip on a dropdown list

Is there anyway of showing a tooltip on the dropdown list? such as when the list is dropped and a person hovers over each option a tooltip or something with details appears. this is for a drop down list with a cascading drop down. this is for asp.net ...

Styling ToolTipService.Tooltip

Is there a way to apply a style just to some tooltips? I'm trying to specify tooltip template just for tooltips showing validation erros. Suppose I have a tooltip style, say errorTTStyle, and some validation template: <Style TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}"> <Style.Triggers> <Trigger Property="Validation.HasError" Value="true"> <Set...