Tipped is a tooltip plugin initially designed to provide contextual information when an icon is clicked or hovered on. As a result, it does not follow the mouse, nor does it appear relative to the mouse. It appears relative to the element that has the tooltip attached.

Features

• Customize the tooltips that appear when you hover over links or images
• Have a custom function callback or an AJAX call as the tooltip source.
• Add new hover-based tips to any element
• Create click-based tips to provide contextual content
• Themeroller compatible

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Updates

February 7, 2011: 2.1.1b:

• Fixed a typing bug in the html code for creation of the #tip element, which resulted in Firefox rendering an extra line.

December 15, 2010: 2.1b:

• Fixed a bug which resulted in the last matched element becoming the $target for all custom param functions
• Fixed an typing error in the html code for creation of the #tip element
• Added (or rather completed) functionality of hideDelay option. If the Tip is now hovered within hideDelay milliseconds the automatic hiding is cancelled & the tip stays visible until the user hovers out of the tip

November 26, 2010: 2.0b: Completely refactored the code into a "Tip" class. Still having problems with resizing too-wide-tips - they're a few pixels wider than the screen currently.

Also includes updates from v1.5.3 and v1.5.4 (which I failed to upload here. Updates from those versions include:

• Adding logic to allow the tip to appear to the left of the mouse, if the tip would otherwise have appeared over the cursor position. This fixes a flickering problem that would occur if the tip is being triggered towards the right side of the screen
• Added a "hideDelay" option to allow the tip to persist after the target has been hovered out.

August 18, 2010: 1.5.2:

Fixed width resizing when tooltip is full window width

June 22, 2010: 1.5.1:

Fixed implementation of 'position':'mouse' option

April 14, 2010: 1.5:

Added the position, posX, posY, and delay options

April 9, 2010: 1.4:

Now applies some styles to ensure the tooltip is within the viewable size of the screen. Scrollbars appear when necessary. The oversizeStick option was added to allow tooltips that are too large, to automatically revert to 'click' behaviour.

Contact

If you want to contact me, do so to tls@augustana.ca with the subject line "Tipped jQuery plugin"