[SIZE=3][B]I am trying to customize the tool tips when a visitor hovers over a link. I want to be able to control the size, background, text size/color. Can anyone help me? Is there a way to do this through CSS or maybe JavaScript. Thanks for the help. ? [/B][/SIZE]
@KeveyNov 08.2005 — #Here's an example...the shadows don't work in Fire Fox though.
[CODE]<html><head> <style type="text/css">
#dhtmltooltip{ position: absolute; width: 300px; border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; background-color: #cccccc; visibility: hidden; z-index: 100; /*Remove below line to remove shadow. Below line should always appear last within this CSS*/ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color=#9999cc,direction=120); }
var offsetxpoint=150 //Customize x offset of tooltip var offsetypoint=-10 //Customize y offset of tooltip var ie=document.all var ns6=document.getElementById && !document.all var enabletip=false if (ie||ns6) var tipobj=document.all? document.all["dhtmltooltip"] : document.getElementById? document.getElementById("dhtmltooltip") : ""
function ietruebody(){ return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body }
function ddrivetip(thetext, thecolor, thewidth){ if (ns6||ie){ if (typeof thewidth!="undefined") tipobj.style.width=thewidth+"px" if (typeof thecolor!="undefined" && thecolor!="") tipobj.style.backgroundColor=thecolor tipobj.innerHTML=thetext enabletip=true return false } }
function positiontip(e){ if (enabletip){ var curX=(ns6)?e.pageX : event.clientX+ietruebody().scrollLeft; var curY=(ns6)?e.pageY : event.clientY+ietruebody().scrollTop; //Find out how close the mouse is to the corner of the window var rightedge=ie&&!window.opera? ietruebody().clientWidth-event.clientX-offsetxpoint : window.innerWidth-e.clientX-offsetxpoint-20 var bottomedge=ie&&!window.opera? ietruebody().clientHeight-event.clientY-offsetypoint : window.innerHeight-e.clientY-offsetypoint-20
var leftedge=(offsetxpoint<0)? offsetxpoint*(-1) : -1000
//if the horizontal distance isn't enough to accomodate the width of the context menu if (rightedge<tipobj.offsetWidth) //move the horizontal position of the menu to the left by it's width tipobj.style.left=ie? ietruebody().scrollLeft+event.clientX-tipobj.offsetWidth+"px" : window.pageXOffset+e.clientX-tipobj.offsetWidth+"px" else if (curX<leftedge) tipobj.style.left="5px" else //position the horizontal position of the menu where the mouse is positioned tipobj.style.left=curX+offsetxpoint+"px"
//same concept with the vertical position if (bottomedge<tipobj.offsetHeight) tipobj.style.top=ie? ietruebody().scrollTop+event.clientY-tipobj.offsetHeight-offsetypoint+"px" :
function hideddrivetip(){ if (ns6||ie){ enabletip=false tipobj.style.visibility="hidden" tipobj.style.left="-1000px" tipobj.style.backgroundColor='' tipobj.style.width='' } }
document.onmousemove=positiontip
</script>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" onMouseover="ddrivetip('Visit Yahoo.com and learn about everything they have to offer!')"; onMouseout="hideddrivetip()">Search Engine</a><br> <a href="http://www.yahoo.com" onMouseover="ddrivetip('Visit this link and do something else!')"; onMouseout="hideddrivetip()">Search Engine</a><br>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" onMouseover="ddrivetip('who knows what this link does!')"; onMouseout="hideddrivetip()">Search Engine</a><br>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" onMouseover="ddrivetip('this link will never work. or maybe it will. i am confused.!')"; onMouseout="hideddrivetip()">Search Engine</a><br>