Fixed Tooltip script: this Object is not getting passed or What ? Problem in Mozilla!

**AnkurThakur** · 06-20-2012, 06:40 AM

1) Script Title: Fixed Tooltip script

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...xedtooltip.htm

3) Describe problem:

I have copied the JS Code to and external .js file and it is working fine when using normally, in Chrome, Mozilla and IE.

Now, I am trying to implement in one of my application in which I want to call the main function for tooltip, i.e, fixedtooltip() using another custom function showtip().
Simply, I will call showtip() which in turn will call fixedtooltip().

What I've done is this :

1. Added a small custom function in the end of the JS file :

Code:

function showtip(mytext,obj)
{
fixedtooltip(mytext, obj, event, '150px')
}

2. Then using it in HTML as :

HTML Code:

<a href="http://www.javascriptkit.com" onMouseover="showtip('Testing !',this)" onMouseout="delayhidetip()">JavaScript Kit</a>

See, I have passed the this object into the function.

The problem is that this is working Good in IE, Google Chrome but not in Mozilla...

Please Help !

Thank You

Regards,
Ankur

**vwphillips** · 06-20-2012, 11:35 AM

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
  <title></title>
<style type="text/css">

#fixedtipdiv{
position:absolute;
padding: 2px;
border:1px solid black;
font:normal 12px Verdana;
line-height:18px;
z-index:100;
}

</style>


</head>

<body>
<script type="text/javascript">

/***********************************************
* Fixed ToolTip script- © Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
***********************************************/

var tipwidth='150px' //default tooltip width
var tipbgcolor='lightyellow'  //tooltip bgcolor
var disappeardelay=250  //tooltip disappear speed onMouseout (in miliseconds)
var vertical_offset="0px" //horizontal offset of tooltip from anchor link
var horizontal_offset="-3px" //horizontal offset of tooltip from anchor link

/////No further editting needed

var ie4=document.all
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all

if (ie4||ns6)
document.write('<div id="fixedtipdiv" style="visibility:hidden;width:'+tipwidth+';background-color:'+tipbgcolor+'" ></div>')

function getposOffset(what, offsettype){
var totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? what.offsetLeft : what.offsetTop;
var parentEl=what.offsetParent;
while (parentEl!=null){
totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? totaloffset+parentEl.offsetLeft : totaloffset+parentEl.offsetTop;
parentEl=parentEl.offsetParent;
}
return totaloffset;
}


function showhide(obj, e, visible, hidden, tipwidth){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.style.top=-500
if (tipwidth!=""){
dropmenuobj.widthobj=dropmenuobj.style
dropmenuobj.widthobj.width=tipwidth
}
if (e.type=="click" && obj.visibility==hidden || e.type=="mouseover")
obj.visibility=visible
else if (e.type=="click")
obj.visibility=hidden
}

function iecompattest(){
return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body
}

function clearbrowseredge(obj, whichedge){
var edgeoffset=(whichedge=="rightedge")? parseInt(horizontal_offset)*-1 : parseInt(vertical_offset)*-1
if (whichedge=="rightedge"){
var windowedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollLeft+iecompattest().clientWidth-15 : window.pageXOffset+window.innerWidth-15
dropmenuobj.contentmeasure=dropmenuobj.offsetWidth
if (windowedge-dropmenuobj.x < dropmenuobj.contentmeasure)
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.contentmeasure-obj.offsetWidth
}
else{
var windowedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollTop+iecompattest().clientHeight-15 : window.pageYOffset+window.innerHeight-18
dropmenuobj.contentmeasure=dropmenuobj.offsetHeight
if (windowedge-dropmenuobj.y < dropmenuobj.contentmeasure)
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.contentmeasure+obj.offsetHeight
}
return edgeoffset
}

function fixedtooltip(menucontents, obj, e, tipwidth){
if (window.event) event.cancelBubble=true
else if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation()
clearhidetip()
dropmenuobj=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("fixedtipdiv") : fixedtipdiv
dropmenuobj.innerHTML=menucontents

if (ie4||ns6){
showhide(dropmenuobj.style, e, "visible", "hidden", tipwidth)
dropmenuobj.x=getposOffset(obj, "left")
dropmenuobj.y=getposOffset(obj, "top")
dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.x-clearbrowseredge(obj, "rightedge")+"px"
dropmenuobj.style.top=dropmenuobj.y-clearbrowseredge(obj, "bottomedge")+obj.offsetHeight+"px"
}
}

function hidetip(e){
if (typeof dropmenuobj!="undefined"){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.style.visibility="hidden"
}
}

function delayhidetip(){
if (ie4||ns6)
delayhide=setTimeout("hidetip()",disappeardelay)
}

function clearhidetip(){
if (typeof delayhide!="undefined")
clearTimeout(delayhide)
}

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/

function showtip(mytext,obj,e)
{
fixedtooltip(mytext, obj, e, '150px')
}/*]]>*/
</script>
<a href="http://www.javascriptkit.com" onMouseover="showtip('Testing !',this,event)" onMouseout="delayhidetip()">JavaScript Kit</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.javascriptkit.com" onMouseover="fixedtooltip('Comprehensive JavaScript tutorials and over 400+ <b>free</b> scripts.', this, event, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidetip()">JavaScript Kit</a> |

<a href="http://www.codingforums.com" onMouseover="fixedtooltip('Web coding and development forums. This tooltip has an apostrophe- I\'m here.', this, event, '200px')" onMouseout="delayhidetip()">CodingForums.com</a>
</body>

</html>

**AnkurThakur** · 06-20-2012, 12:50 PM

Very Nice Solution !!! Thanks a Lot my Friend

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