How To Do Tooltips With Javascript

Xah Lee, 2005-11

To have a tooltip bubble when mouse hovers over, use the “title” attribute in your link, like this:

<a href="http://example.com/"
 title="this is some nice link">somelink</a>

Example: hover mouse over me.

Using overLIB

If you want to have links and image in your tooltip, or control the size or color of the bubble, use Erik Bosrup's overLIB at: http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/.

Example: Please mouse over me..

Here's the code:

<a href="javascript:void(0);"
 onmouseover="return overlib('yes yes yes.');"
 onmouseout="return nd();">Please mouse over me.</a>.

Here's a tutorial about using overLIB: http://overlib.boughner.us/plugins/bubble_commands.html