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Creating accessible tooltips for a web site

Is there a best practice for making tooltip type functionality accessible to people with accessibility needs? I am interested in jquery tooltip and have found a few others but I am thinking twice before spending anytime as I am concerned about accessibility compliance of these. ...

I can't use HTML select within Dojo Tooltip.

I need a Dojo tooltip with a drop-down-list. Unfortunately the tooltip closes when the cursor is moved over the drop-down-list, because the list overhangs the tooltip's div. Is there any workaround? Could the close-automatism be disabled temporarily? <div class="dojoPopupContainer dojoTooltip showComboBox" style="position: abso...

How can I draw my own ToolTip in place of the default for Swing components?

I'm attempting to create my own custom ToolTip for a program I've ported to Java, I'm trying to match the original programs ToolTips (it was written in Delphi). I've got some code that allows me to draw "inside" a ToolTip but for some reason, if I Override paint(Graphics g, JComponent c) and leave it blank it still draws a ToolTip, and a...

IE7 not showing my Tooltips

Hi, the problem is that the tooltips shows and error in the script (don't know what could it be) in IE7 Can you take a look?? If you need any of the code or something else please ask... ...

Tooltip as toolbar: jQuery, CSS, or...?

I'd like to use a tooltip as a toolbar and would like some suggestions on the best way to do so. Here are my requirements: Implemented in CSS or jQuery (or both) Tooltip shows after a second or two of hovering Tooltip has buttons for further UI On mouseout, tooltip remains visible for a second The tooltip remains visible on mouseover ...

Why is my tooltip not remaining visible on mouseover? (jQuery)

I'm trying to get a tooltip to remain visible on mouseover. It works when you mouseover the first time. But try to mouseout, then mouseover another link and mouseover that tooltip. It will fade. Check out the code on jsFiddle. Would love to know what I'm doing wrong here. http://jsfiddle.net/6FpM8/7/ ...

Hoverable tooltips with AJAX-pulled content on Prototype/Scriptaculous (to act like Twitter's)`

Twitter recently added hoverable multi-media "tooltips" -- when you hover over a username or avatar on your feed, it pops up (in-place) more details on the user (tweets sent/received, location, last tweet). It also includes a "Follow" button. There's a 'more-info' link which will load some more details on-demand. I'd like to emulate ho...

Tooltip in IE position problems

Hey Everyone, Here is some code I use for a tooltip that hovers above its element so it doesnt popup below and force the user to scroll to see it. It works fine in all browsers except IE. In IE it positions way below the element instead of above it. How can I fix the positioning error with IE? Im stumped. <style type="text/css"> .Too...

In Silverlight, having refresh problem on a datagrid and a tooltip on a cell when grid is sorted.

Using SL4, I have a DataGrid defined as follow (simplified) <UserControl.Resources> <ResourceDictionary> <DataTemplate x:Key="MyDataTemplate"> <Grid> <TextBlock Text="{Binding SomeField}"> <ToolTipService.ToolTip> <ToolTips:ToolTip> ...

ToolTip Stay displayed

In C#, how can I make a ToolTip remain displayed until the mouse move out of the ToolTip region. No matter what delay I set it stay displayed. I tried to change AutoPopDelay, InitialDelay, and ReshowDelay properties to 0 but the only way I can see is to set the delay to a very large value which is not what I'm looking for. ...

Create a tooltip in C# based on Win32 window handle

I'm writing a dll for an aging software framework. The framework was created in 2002, so most of its thinking and dll templates are for C++/Win32. However, it does come with a working dll template in C#, which is what I'm working with. The dll creates a window and I'm trying to add a tooltip to that window. Using the C++/Win32 dll templa...

assign tooltip behaviour to repeating links

HTML below is generated via ajax call into "purchase_content". I want to apply tooltip to each link in each row, can be up to 100 rows. This is code at moment but with no success. If I rollover each link twice tooltip appears but wont ever appear again. Any thoughts on addressing link on each row? <div id="purchase_content"> <div id...

How to add a DataTemplate to a ToolTip for a wpf ComboBox using a Style

I am trying to format a ToolTip in a ComboBox. The following XAML is correctly picking up the value needed for the ToolTip, but not the DataTemplate. <DataTemplate DataType = "ToolTip"> <TextBlock Width = "200" TextWrapping = "Wrap" Text = "{Binding}" /> </DataTemplate> <Style x:Key = "RadComboBoxStyle1" Targ...

JQuery Netflix style tooltips?

I'd like to have a tooltip (preferably using a jquery library) that allows me to pop open a div (who's content I can customize with html - forms, links, images etc.) at the location of a mouseover. I'd like the div to remained fixed at a location relative to the element that was hovered over (and automatically handle edge of browser cas...

Show shortcut keys in ScreenTips in Visual Studio 2010

In Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 you used to be able to mouse over the toolbar and a tooltip would pop up showing the associated shortcut key if you turned on the feature. This feature seems to be missing in VS 2010. Method to configure this feature in 2005 and 2008: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2151899/display-keyboard-shortcuts-in...

Vista Gadget - Show tooltip on mouse over

Hello, I have a vista gadget that has a few DIV's and IMG's. The elements have 'title' attributes set to display a tooltip. If you are in the gadget, and it is focused the tool tips show... like normal. But if you click on the desktop then hover over something that is supposed to have a tooltip nothing shows up until you click the gadget...

Disable Visual Studio (ReSharper?) editor tooltips?

When I mouseover a method in my line of code, VS2010 shows a tooltip that tells me information about the signature and documentation of the method. How can I disable these tooltips (maybe ReSharper is showing them?)? ...

Winforms Tooltips only work on certain machines?

Using Winforms, C# and VS 2010 I've made an odd discovery that tooltips only seems to work on certain machines, although it seems to be independent of OS. They work on one XP machine but not 2 others, but work on a Windows 7 machine. Anybody ever seen anything like this? ...

Showing list item tooltips in flex

I have a list of objects containing an icon, a label, and a tooltip. I want to show only the icon and the label. The tooltips should be visible on mouse over an item. Is there a way i can achieve this without writing my own mouse-over/out functions? (Please notice that dataTips are a different thing as they are displayed only when the ...

Tooltip Balloon Disappears After 5 Seconds

I have the property "AutoPopDelay" set to 60000, but every time I hover over an associated element, the balloon only stays open for 5 seconds even when my mouse pointer stays over stationary over the element. Any ideas on what could be causing this? Edit: I am using WinForms ...