Hi welcome to Dynamic Drive, you have posted this in the wrong section, the right section for this type of post is Javascript. Although I will try to get this to work.
Just to have a tooltip appear with just text should be like this below:
Place this part of CSS code into the <HEAD> section of your web page:
Code:
<style type="text/css">
#dhtmlgoodies_tooltip{
background-color:#EEE;
border:1px solid #000;
position:absolute;
display:none;
z-index:20000;
padding:2px;
font-size:0.9em;
-moz-border-radius:6px; /* Rounded edges in Firefox */
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Arial, sans-serif;
}
#dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow{
position:absolute;
background-color:#555;
display:none;
z-index:10000;
opacity:0.7;
filter:alpha(opacity=70);
-khtml-opacity: 0.7;
-moz-opacity: 0.7;
-moz-border-radius:6px; /* Rounded edges in Firefox */
}
</style>
Place this part of code into the <HEAD> section of your web page:
Code:
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
/************************************************************************************************************
(C) www.dhtmlgoodies.com, October 2005
This is a script from www.dhtmlgoodies.com. You will find this and a lot of other scripts at our website.
Terms of use:
You are free to use this script as long as the copyright message is kept intact. However, you may not
redistribute, sell or repost it without our permission.
Thank you!
Updated: April, 6th 2006, Using iframe in IE in order to make the tooltip cover select boxes.
www.dhtmlgoodies.com
Alf Magne Kalleland
************************************************************************************************************/
var dhtmlgoodies_tooltip = false;
var dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow = false;
var dhtmlgoodies_shadowSize = 4;
var dhtmlgoodies_tooltipMaxWidth = 200;
var dhtmlgoodies_tooltipMinWidth = 100;
var dhtmlgoodies_iframe = false;
var tooltip_is_msie = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE')>=0 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('opera')==-1 && document.all)?true:false;
function showTooltip(e,tooltipTxt)
{
var bodyWidth = Math.max(document.body.clientWidth,document.documentElement.clientWidth) - 20;
if(!dhtmlgoodies_tooltip){
dhtmlgoodies_tooltip = document.createElement('DIV');
dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.id = 'dhtmlgoodies_tooltip';
dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow = document.createElement('DIV');
dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.id = 'dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow';
document.body.appendChild(dhtmlgoodies_tooltip);
document.body.appendChild(dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow);
if(tooltip_is_msie){
dhtmlgoodies_iframe = document.createElement('IFRAME');
dhtmlgoodies_iframe.frameborder='5';
dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.backgroundColor='#FFFFFF';
dhtmlgoodies_iframe.src = '#';
dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.zIndex = 100;
dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.position = 'absolute';
document.body.appendChild(dhtmlgoodies_iframe);
}
}
dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.display='block';
dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.display='block';
if(tooltip_is_msie)dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.display='block';
var st = Math.max(document.body.scrollTop,document.documentElement.scrollTop);
if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('safari')>=0)st=0;
var leftPos = e.clientX + 10;
dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.width = null; // Reset style width if it's set
dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.innerHTML = tooltipTxt;
dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.left = leftPos + 'px';
dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.top = e.clientY + 10 + st + 'px';
dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.left = leftPos + dhtmlgoodies_shadowSize + 'px';
dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.top = e.clientY + 10 + st + dhtmlgoodies_shadowSize + 'px';
if(dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetWidth>dhtmlgoodies_tooltipMaxWidth){ /* Exceeding max width of tooltip ? */
dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.width = dhtmlgoodies_tooltipMaxWidth + 'px';
}
var tooltipWidth = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetWidth;
if(tooltipWidth<dhtmlgoodies_tooltipMinWidth)tooltipWidth = dhtmlgoodies_tooltipMinWidth;
dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.width = tooltipWidth + 'px';
dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.width = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetWidth + 'px';
dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.height = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetHeight + 'px';
if((leftPos + tooltipWidth)>bodyWidth){
dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.left = (dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.left.replace('px','') - ((leftPos + tooltipWidth)-bodyWidth)) + 'px';
dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.left = (dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.left.replace('px','') - ((leftPos + tooltipWidth)-bodyWidth) + dhtmlgoodies_shadowSize) + 'px';
}
if(tooltip_is_msie){
dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.left = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.left;
dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.top = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.top;
dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.width = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetWidth + 'px';
dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.height = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetHeight + 'px';
}
}
function hideTooltip()
{
dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.display='none';
dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.display='none';
if(tooltip_is_msie)dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.display='none';
}
</SCRIPT>
Place this part of code where you want the link to be in your body section:
Code:
<a href="#" onmouseout="hideTooltip()" onmouseover="showTooltip(event,'Text Here');return false">Roll over me</a>
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