js tooltips

[vivvip]

I have inserted a js tooltip which works fine on my desktop but when uploaded to my site it does not work either in aol or ie. what have i left out?

[iota]

You mean Desktop for you can run js tooltips successfully on local drive, right ?

http://www.twinhelix.com

Visit there and try his freeware tooltips.

Or you just download my JS collection Lib (http://icebergz.flashband.net/myfreewares/jslib.exe).

[Vladdy]

I have inserted a js tooltip which works fine on my desktop but when uploaded to my site it does not work either in aol or ie. what have i left out?
You have left out Gecko browsers (Mozilla, Firefox), Safari, Opera, Lynx, KMD, and plenty of other browsers as well as your most important visitors - SE bots.
If you want to provide supplemental information about an element (which in graphical browsers will be rendered as a tooltip), use title attribute:
<a href="http://www.google.com" title="Search the web before asking questions">Google</a>

[vivvip]

Thanks for that but am a new js user - do you mean put in what you said exactly as it is? If I sent you my script could you have a look?? Pretty Please
Viv

[Basscyst]

He's basically saying you shouldn't use a tool tip script at all. The functionality is built into most modern day browsers. Any element you wish to have a tool tip can be given the title attribute. The text you put in the title attribute is what will be dispayed in the tooltip.


<a href="http://www.google.com" title="Search the web before asking questions">Google</a>