Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Scrolling Tooltip Script

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Scrolling Tooltip Script

Author: Dynamic Drive

Description: An alternate version of the tooltip script that creates a "scrolling" tooltip. Definitely more eye catching, if nothing else. (Note that in IE, the tooltip will only be enabled after the document has completed loading) View notes below for cross-browser rendering issues.

Demo

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Website Abstraction
Yahoo
Cnet
Techweb

Directions:

Step 1: Insert the below into the <body> section of your web page, right after the <body> tag itself, before anything else:

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<script type="text/javascript"> /*********************************************** * Scrolling Tooltip Script- © Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com) * This notice must stay intact for use * Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code ***********************************************/ function ietruebody(){ //Dynamicdrive added function return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body } if (!document.layers&&!document.all) event="test" function showtip2(current,e,text){ if (document.all&&document.readyState=="complete"){ document.all.tooltip2.innerHTML='<marquee style="border:1px solid black">'+text+'</marquee>' document.all.tooltip2.style.pixelLeft=event.clientX+ietruebody().scrollLeft+10 document.all.tooltip2.style.pixelTop=event.clientY+ietruebody().scrollTop+10 document.all.tooltip2.style.visibility="visible" } else if (document.layers){ document.tooltip2.document.nstip.document.write('<b>'+text+'</b>') document.tooltip2.document.nstip.document.close() document.tooltip2.document.nstip.left=0 currentscroll=setInterval("scrolltip()",100) document.tooltip2.left=e.pageX+10 document.tooltip2.top=e.pageY+10 document.tooltip2.visibility="show" } } function hidetip2(){ if (document.all) document.all.tooltip2.style.visibility="hidden" else if (document.layers){ clearInterval(currentscroll) document.tooltip2.visibility="hidden" } } function scrolltip(){ if (document.tooltip2.document.nstip.left>=-document.tooltip2.document.nstip.document.width) document.tooltip2.document.nstip.left-=5 else document.tooltip2.document.nstip.left=150 } </script> <div id="tooltip2" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;clip:rect(0 150 50 0);width:150px;background-color:lightyellow"> <layer name="nstip" width=1000px bgColor="lightyellow"></layer> </div>

Giving text links a tooltip:
Having done the above, the procedure for giving text links or image maps a scrolling tooltip is virtually identical to that of the standard tooltip script. Simply insert the below into either the <a> tag of the text link, or right alongside the href attribute of each image spot:

onMouseover="showtip2(this,event,'Visit Dynamic Drive for DHTML Scripts!')" onMouseout="hidetip2()"

with the part in red representing the text you want shown inside the tip.