Working with a project and I am trying to place a button inside a img title field. I am using boxslider and I am trying to place a href link to the button, but can't get it to work.
img src="images/1.jpg" title="asdad asd adad < button >Test< /button >" alt=""
As soon as I type in href="#" to the < button href="#" > , it wont work.
Anyone know another solution for this problem?
See live exampel: https://adamskymotorkylare.se/beta/ProjectX/
No, it's not possible. Declaring a tag inside the attribute of another tag is illegal. It will never be parsed as tag, but as string.
I assume you want your <img> to function as a button. That can easily be achieved using an anchor (<a>) or button (<button>) tag as a wrapper for the <img> tag:
<a href="#">
<img src="...">
</a>
If you want to place a link inside the title attribute of an <img> simply put, it's not possible. In order to achieve something that resembles this, you need to wrap the image inside a positioned parent and add a tooltip that looks like a title but, in fact, is a proper DOM element displayed when you hover the parent, containing whatever other DOM elements you want, including links.
Basic example (proof of concept):
.parent {
position: relative;
}
.tooltip {
display: inline-block;
max-width: 300px;
border-radius: 6px;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,.85);
padding: 1rem;
box-sizing: border-box;
position: absolute;
top: 3rem;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
box-shadow: 0 5px 6px -3px rgba(0,0,0,.2), 0 9px 12px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.14), 0 3px 16px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.12);
opacity: 0;
transition: opacity .3s cubic-bezier(.4,0,.2,1), top .3s cubic-bezier(.4,0,.2,1);
}
.tooltip:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
left: calc(50% - 12px);
bottom: -25px;
width: 1px;
height: 1px;
border: 12px solid transparent;
border-top-color: white;
opacity: .85;
}
.parent > img {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
.parent:hover .tooltip {
top: 2rem;
opacity: 1;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="tooltip">This is a tooltip wannabe with a link.<br />You can go ahead and style it up so it looks more like a tooltip, or you could look into existing tooltip or popover plugins/libaries and use something that's tested cross-browser/cross-device. <br />
Intended as proof of concept.
</div>
<img src="https://source.unsplash.com/random/800x500">
</div>
Related
Example:
Link
How do I change the presentation of the "title" attribute in the browser?. By default, it just has yellow background and small font. I would like to make it bigger and change the background color.
Is there a CSS way to style the title attribute?
It seems that there is in fact a pure CSS solution, requiring only the css attr expression, generated content and attribute selectors (which suggests that it works as far back as IE8):
https://jsfiddle.net/z42r2vv0/2/
a {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
margin-top: 20px;
}
a[title]:hover::after {
content: attr(title);
position: absolute;
top: -100%;
left: 0;
}
<a href="http://www.google.com/" title="Hello world!">
Hover over me
</a>
update w/ input from #ViROscar: please note that it's not necessary to use any specific attribute, although I've used the "title" attribute in the example above; actually my recommendation would be to use the "alt" attribute, as there is some chance that the content will be accessible to users unable to benefit from CSS.
update again I'm not changing the code because the "title" attribute has basically come to mean the "tooltip" attribute, and it's probably not a good idea to hide important text inside a field only accessible on hover, but if you're interested in making this text accessible the "aria-label" attribute seems like the best place for it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_aria-label_attribute
You can't style an actual title attribute
How the text in the title attribute is displayed is defined by the browser and varies from browser to browser. It's not possible for a webpage to apply any style to the tooltip that the browser displays based on the title attribute.
However, you can create something very similar using other attributes.
You can make a pseudo-tooltip with CSS and a custom attribute (e.g. data-title)
For this, I'd use a data-title attribute. data-* attributes are a method to store custom data in DOM elements/HTML. There are multiple ways of accessing them. Importantly, they can be selected by CSS.
Given that you can use CSS to select elements with data-title attributes, you can then use CSS to create :after (or :before) content that contains the value of the attribute using attr().
Styled tooltip Examples
Bigger and with a different background color (per question's request):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip (bigger and with a different background color, as requested in the question)<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
More elaborate styling (adapted from this blog post):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
position: absolute;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
padding: 4px 4px 4px 8px;
color: #222;
white-space: nowrap;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, #f8f8f8),color-stop(1, #cccccc));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
opacity: 0;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
Known issues
Unlike a real title tooltip, the tooltip produced by the above CSS is not, necessarily, guaranteed to be visible on the page (i.e. it might be outside the visible area). On the other hand, it is guaranteed to be within the current window, which is not the case for an actual tooltip.
In addition, the pseudo-tooltip is positioned relative to the element that has the pseudo-tooltip rather than relative to where the mouse is on that element. You may want to fine-tune where the pseudo-tooltip is displayed. Having it appear in a known location relative to the element can be a benefit or a drawback, depending on the situation.
You can't use :before or :after on elements which are not containers
There's a good explanation in this answer to "Can I use a :before or :after pseudo-element on an input field?"
Effectively, this means that you can't use this method directly on elements like <input type="text"/>, <textarea/>, <img>, etc. The easy solution is to wrap the element that's not a container in a <span> or <div> and have the pseudo-tooltip on the container.
Examples of using a pseudo-tooltip on a <span> wrapping a non-container element:
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
.pseudo-tooltip-wrapper {
/*This causes the wrapping element to be the same size as what it contains.*/
display: inline-block;
}
Text input with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="input type="text""><input type='text'></span><br/><br/><br/>
Textarea with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="this is a textarea"><textarea data-title="this is a textarea"></textarea></span><br/>
From the code on the blog post linked above (which I first saw in an answer here that plagiarized it), it appeared obvious to me to use a data-* attribute instead of the title attribute. Doing so was also suggested in a comment by snostorm on that (now deleted) answer.
Here is an example of how to do it:
a.tip {
border-bottom: 1px dashed;
text-decoration: none
}
a.tip:hover {
cursor: help;
position: relative
}
a.tip span {
display: none
}
a.tip:hover span {
border: #c0c0c0 1px dotted;
padding: 5px 20px 5px 5px;
display: block;
z-index: 100;
background: url(../images/status-info.png) #f0f0f0 no-repeat 100% 5%;
left: 0px;
margin: 10px;
width: 250px;
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
text-decoration: none
}
Link<span>This is the CSS tooltip showing up when you mouse over the link</span>
CSS can't change the tooltip appearance. It is browser/OS-dependent. If you want something different you'll have to use Javascript to generate markup when you hover over the element instead of the default tooltip.
I have found the answer here: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/11/how-to-create-a-simple-css3-tooltip/
my own code goes like this, I have changed the attribute name, if you maintain the title name for the attribute you end up having two popups for the same text, another change is that my text on hovering displays underneath the exposed text.
.tags {
display: inline;
position: relative;
}
.tags:hover:after {
background: #333;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .8);
border-radius: 5px;
bottom: -34px;
color: #fff;
content: attr(data-gloss);
left: 20%;
padding: 5px 15px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 98;
width: 350px;
}
.tags:hover:before {
border: solid;
border-color: #333 transparent;
border-width: 0 6px 6px 6px;
bottom: -4px;
content: "";
left: 50%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 99;
}
<a class="tags" data-gloss="Text shown on hovering">Exposed text</a>
I thought i'd post my 20 lines JavaScript solution here. It is not perfect, but may be useful for some depending on what you need from your tooltips.
When to use it
Automatically styles the tooltip for all HTML elements with a TITLE attribute defined (this includes elements dynamically added to the document in the future)
No Javascript/HTML changes or hacks required for every tooltip (just the TITLE attribute, semantically clear)
Very light (adds about 300 bytes gzipped and minified)
You want only a very basic styleable tooltip
When NOT to use
Requires jQuery, so do not use if you don't use jQuery
Bad support for nested elements that both have tooltips
You need more than one tooltip on the screen at the same time
You need the tooltip to disappear after some time
The code
// Use a closure to keep vars out of global scope
(function () {
var ID = "tooltip", CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON", FOLLOW = true,
DATA = "_tooltip", OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10,
showAt = function (e) {
var ntop = e.pageY + OFFSET_Y, nleft = e.pageX + OFFSET_X;
$("#" + ID).html($(e.target).data(DATA)).css({
position: "absolute", top: ntop, left: nleft
}).show();
};
$(document).on("mouseenter", "*[title]", function (e) {
$(this).data(DATA, $(this).attr("title"));
$(this).removeAttr("title").addClass(CLS_ON);
$("<div id='" + ID + "' />").appendTo("body");
showAt(e);
});
$(document).on("mouseleave", "." + CLS_ON, function (e) {
$(this).attr("title", $(this).data(DATA)).removeClass(CLS_ON);
$("#" + ID).remove();
});
if (FOLLOW) { $(document).on("mousemove", "." + CLS_ON, showAt); }
}());
Paste it anywhere, it should work even when you run this code before the DOM is ready (it just won't show your tooltips until DOM is ready).
Customize
You can change the var declarations on the second line to customize it a bit.
var ID = "tooltip"; // The ID of the styleable tooltip
var CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var FOLLOW = true; // TRUE to enable mouse following, FALSE to have static tooltips
var DATA = "_tooltip"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10; // Tooltip's distance to the cursor
Style
You can now style your tooltips using the following CSS:
#tooltip {
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid red;
padding: 3px 10px;
}
A jsfiddle for custom tooltip pattern is Here
It is based on CSS Positioning and pseduo class selectors
Check MDN docs for cross-browser support of pseudo classes
<!-- HTML -->
<p>
<a href="http://www.google.com/" class="tooltip">
I am a
<span> (This website rocks) </span></a> a developer.
</p>
/*CSS*/
a.tooltip {
position: relative;
}
a.tooltip span {
display: none;
}
a.tooltip:hover span, a.tooltip:focus span {
display:block;
position:absolute;
top:1em;
left:1.5em;
padding: 0.2em 0.6em;
border:1px solid #996633;
background-color:#FFFF66;
color:#000;
}
Native tooltip cannot be styled.
That being said, you can use some library that would show styles floating layers when element is being hovered (instead of the native tooltips, and suppress them) requiring little or no code modifications...
You cannot style the default browser tooltip. But you can use javascript to create your own custom HTML tooltips.
a[title="My site"] {
color: red;
}
This also works with any attribute you want to add for instance:
HTML
<div class="my_class" anything="whatever">My Stuff</div>
CSS
.my_class[anything="whatever"] {
color: red;
}
See it work at: http://jsfiddle.net/vpYWE/1/
I have a list of links on the left hand side of the page.
I would like to improve this list so that when I put the cursor over an item in this list, some sort of label appears which gives a brief description about what the link is pointing to. The html in question is generated automatically using Antora from AsciiDoc sources and, as far as I can see, all I am able to do is to add a css class or id for the different parts of the link text which are in bold. I cannot add any Javascript or nested css classes.
So here is my attempt:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#Bob.tooltip {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
}
#Bob.tooltiptext {
font-size: 5px;
}
#Bob.tooltiptext:hover {
visibility: visible;
width: 120px;
background-color: black;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
border-radius: 6px;
padding: 5px 0;
font-size: 10px;
/* Position the tooltip */
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
}
</style>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://www.bob.com" class="searchEngineLink" >
<strong id="Bob" class="tooltip">Bob</strong>
<strong id="Bob" class="tooltiptext">What a great guy!</strong>
</a>
</body>
</html>
This does not achieve what I want obviously. All it does is have one bit of text in a small font that, when I roll over it, increases into a larger font in a kind of box.
If anyone can think of some way to have a label pop up over some link in a page, even using some completely different approach that I have not thought of, I would be grateful. Note that I will have about 200 links so if I can have a solution that does not require me to have a set of css properties for every different id for each link, that would be preferable.
If any of the this question is not clear, please feel free to ask me.
Simple tooltip can be achieved by usi title attribute: The information is shown as a tooltip text when the mouse moves over the element.
<a href="http://www.bob.com" class="searchEngineLink" title="What a great guy!">
<strong id="Bob" class="tooltip">Bob</strong>
</a>
You can also make your own custom tooltip, by using content property to insert generated content. (description of each link).
.searchEngineLink {
display: inline;
position: relative;
}
.searchEngineLink:hover:after {
background: #eee;
border-radius: 5px;
bottom: -34px;
color: black;
content: attr(gloss);
left: 20%;
padding: 5px 15px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 98;
width: auto;
white-space:nowrap;
}
.searchEngineLink:hover:before {
border: solid;
border-color: #ddd transparent;
border-width: 0 6px 6px 6px;
bottom: -4px;
content: "";
left: 40%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 99;
}
<a class="searchEngineLink" gloss="What a great guy" href="http://www.bob.com">Bob</a>
<a class="searchEngineLink" gloss="What a smart guy" href="http://www.bob.com">Bob2</a>
<br>
<a class="searchEngineLink" gloss="What a handsome guy" href="http://www.bob.com">Bob3</a>
I am currently working on my share buttons and I am trying to make them act like the share buttons on YouTube do, when a:hovered a span elemental appears with a text "Facebook/Twitter/RSS" etc.
The span element width should be auto since "Facebook" and "RSS" contains a different amount of letters, and I don't want to set a fixed width.
I want the span element to appear in the "middle" of it's current element, check the youtube share buttom for a hint.
I have come this far, see: http://jsfiddle.net/Kz2n2/
try this:
<span title="share">share</span>
css:
.tooltip{
display: inline;
position: relative;
}
.tooltip:hover:after{
background: #333;
background: rgba(0,0,0,.8);
border-radius: 5px;
bottom: 26px;
color: #fff;
content: attr(title);
left: 20%;
padding: 5px 15px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 98;
width: 100%;
}
.tooltip:hover:before{
border: solid;
border-color: #333 transparent;
border-width: 6px 6px 0 6px;
bottom: 20px;
content: "";
left: 50%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 99;
}
working jsfiddle:
demo
With jQuery UI Tooltip you can make tooltips for your social icons.
Check out the following example, here is the jQuery UI Tooltip implemented.
$('.tooltip').tooltip();
The title tag on your <a href='#'>` is used as the text for your tooltip.
#<span>RSS.</span>
I am trying to use the following technique
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/css-image-gallery/
to create a pop up image hover effect that I am dynamically generating with php. I have one problem with this technique that every single image is downloaded when the page loads. How can I have css only download the image on hover.?
Right now css is pushing the images off the screen when the page loads (left: -1000px;) then brings them back into view on hover.Is it possible with css to accomplish this then what other choices do I have?
Instead of setting the img src attribute to the link. Set the attribute data-src with that link. When you hover set the src of the image from the data-src attribute. The browser will load it in then.
HTML Code Here
.gallerycontainer {
position: relative;
}
.thumbnail img {
border: 1px solid white;
margin: 0 5px 5px 0;
}
.thumbnail:hover {
background - color: transparent;
}
.thumbnail:hover img {
border: 1px solid blue;
}
.thumbnail span {
position: absolute;
background - color: lightyellow;
padding: 5px;
left: -1000px;
border: 1px dashed gray;
visibility: hidden;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
}
.thumbnail span img {
border - width: 0;
padding: 2px;
}
.thumbnail:hover span {
visibility: visible;
top: 0;
left: 230px;
z-index: 50;
}
<div class="gallerycontainer">
<a href="#thumb" class="thumbnail">
<img width="100px" border="0" height="66px" src="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/cssexamples/media/tree_thumb.jpg"><span><img src="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/cssexamples/media/tree.jpg"><br>Simply beautiful.</span>
</a>
<a href="#thumb" class="thumbnail">
<img width="100px" border="0" height="66px" src="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/cssexamples/media/ocean_thumb.jpg"><span><img src="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/cssexamples/media/ocean.jpg"><br>So real, it's unreal. Or is it?</span>
</a>
<br>
</div>
Take a look at Lazy Loading your images using jQuery: http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload
Here are some other options: http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/lazy-loading-of-images-resources-you-need/
Example:
Link
How do I change the presentation of the "title" attribute in the browser?. By default, it just has yellow background and small font. I would like to make it bigger and change the background color.
Is there a CSS way to style the title attribute?
It seems that there is in fact a pure CSS solution, requiring only the css attr expression, generated content and attribute selectors (which suggests that it works as far back as IE8):
https://jsfiddle.net/z42r2vv0/2/
a {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
margin-top: 20px;
}
a[title]:hover::after {
content: attr(title);
position: absolute;
top: -100%;
left: 0;
}
<a href="http://www.google.com/" title="Hello world!">
Hover over me
</a>
update w/ input from #ViROscar: please note that it's not necessary to use any specific attribute, although I've used the "title" attribute in the example above; actually my recommendation would be to use the "alt" attribute, as there is some chance that the content will be accessible to users unable to benefit from CSS.
update again I'm not changing the code because the "title" attribute has basically come to mean the "tooltip" attribute, and it's probably not a good idea to hide important text inside a field only accessible on hover, but if you're interested in making this text accessible the "aria-label" attribute seems like the best place for it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_aria-label_attribute
You can't style an actual title attribute
How the text in the title attribute is displayed is defined by the browser and varies from browser to browser. It's not possible for a webpage to apply any style to the tooltip that the browser displays based on the title attribute.
However, you can create something very similar using other attributes.
You can make a pseudo-tooltip with CSS and a custom attribute (e.g. data-title)
For this, I'd use a data-title attribute. data-* attributes are a method to store custom data in DOM elements/HTML. There are multiple ways of accessing them. Importantly, they can be selected by CSS.
Given that you can use CSS to select elements with data-title attributes, you can then use CSS to create :after (or :before) content that contains the value of the attribute using attr().
Styled tooltip Examples
Bigger and with a different background color (per question's request):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip (bigger and with a different background color, as requested in the question)<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
More elaborate styling (adapted from this blog post):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
position: absolute;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
padding: 4px 4px 4px 8px;
color: #222;
white-space: nowrap;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, #f8f8f8),color-stop(1, #cccccc));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
opacity: 0;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
Known issues
Unlike a real title tooltip, the tooltip produced by the above CSS is not, necessarily, guaranteed to be visible on the page (i.e. it might be outside the visible area). On the other hand, it is guaranteed to be within the current window, which is not the case for an actual tooltip.
In addition, the pseudo-tooltip is positioned relative to the element that has the pseudo-tooltip rather than relative to where the mouse is on that element. You may want to fine-tune where the pseudo-tooltip is displayed. Having it appear in a known location relative to the element can be a benefit or a drawback, depending on the situation.
You can't use :before or :after on elements which are not containers
There's a good explanation in this answer to "Can I use a :before or :after pseudo-element on an input field?"
Effectively, this means that you can't use this method directly on elements like <input type="text"/>, <textarea/>, <img>, etc. The easy solution is to wrap the element that's not a container in a <span> or <div> and have the pseudo-tooltip on the container.
Examples of using a pseudo-tooltip on a <span> wrapping a non-container element:
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
.pseudo-tooltip-wrapper {
/*This causes the wrapping element to be the same size as what it contains.*/
display: inline-block;
}
Text input with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="input type="text""><input type='text'></span><br/><br/><br/>
Textarea with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="this is a textarea"><textarea data-title="this is a textarea"></textarea></span><br/>
From the code on the blog post linked above (which I first saw in an answer here that plagiarized it), it appeared obvious to me to use a data-* attribute instead of the title attribute. Doing so was also suggested in a comment by snostorm on that (now deleted) answer.
Here is an example of how to do it:
a.tip {
border-bottom: 1px dashed;
text-decoration: none
}
a.tip:hover {
cursor: help;
position: relative
}
a.tip span {
display: none
}
a.tip:hover span {
border: #c0c0c0 1px dotted;
padding: 5px 20px 5px 5px;
display: block;
z-index: 100;
background: url(../images/status-info.png) #f0f0f0 no-repeat 100% 5%;
left: 0px;
margin: 10px;
width: 250px;
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
text-decoration: none
}
Link<span>This is the CSS tooltip showing up when you mouse over the link</span>
CSS can't change the tooltip appearance. It is browser/OS-dependent. If you want something different you'll have to use Javascript to generate markup when you hover over the element instead of the default tooltip.
I have found the answer here: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/11/how-to-create-a-simple-css3-tooltip/
my own code goes like this, I have changed the attribute name, if you maintain the title name for the attribute you end up having two popups for the same text, another change is that my text on hovering displays underneath the exposed text.
.tags {
display: inline;
position: relative;
}
.tags:hover:after {
background: #333;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .8);
border-radius: 5px;
bottom: -34px;
color: #fff;
content: attr(data-gloss);
left: 20%;
padding: 5px 15px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 98;
width: 350px;
}
.tags:hover:before {
border: solid;
border-color: #333 transparent;
border-width: 0 6px 6px 6px;
bottom: -4px;
content: "";
left: 50%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 99;
}
<a class="tags" data-gloss="Text shown on hovering">Exposed text</a>
I thought i'd post my 20 lines JavaScript solution here. It is not perfect, but may be useful for some depending on what you need from your tooltips.
When to use it
Automatically styles the tooltip for all HTML elements with a TITLE attribute defined (this includes elements dynamically added to the document in the future)
No Javascript/HTML changes or hacks required for every tooltip (just the TITLE attribute, semantically clear)
Very light (adds about 300 bytes gzipped and minified)
You want only a very basic styleable tooltip
When NOT to use
Requires jQuery, so do not use if you don't use jQuery
Bad support for nested elements that both have tooltips
You need more than one tooltip on the screen at the same time
You need the tooltip to disappear after some time
The code
// Use a closure to keep vars out of global scope
(function () {
var ID = "tooltip", CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON", FOLLOW = true,
DATA = "_tooltip", OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10,
showAt = function (e) {
var ntop = e.pageY + OFFSET_Y, nleft = e.pageX + OFFSET_X;
$("#" + ID).html($(e.target).data(DATA)).css({
position: "absolute", top: ntop, left: nleft
}).show();
};
$(document).on("mouseenter", "*[title]", function (e) {
$(this).data(DATA, $(this).attr("title"));
$(this).removeAttr("title").addClass(CLS_ON);
$("<div id='" + ID + "' />").appendTo("body");
showAt(e);
});
$(document).on("mouseleave", "." + CLS_ON, function (e) {
$(this).attr("title", $(this).data(DATA)).removeClass(CLS_ON);
$("#" + ID).remove();
});
if (FOLLOW) { $(document).on("mousemove", "." + CLS_ON, showAt); }
}());
Paste it anywhere, it should work even when you run this code before the DOM is ready (it just won't show your tooltips until DOM is ready).
Customize
You can change the var declarations on the second line to customize it a bit.
var ID = "tooltip"; // The ID of the styleable tooltip
var CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var FOLLOW = true; // TRUE to enable mouse following, FALSE to have static tooltips
var DATA = "_tooltip"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10; // Tooltip's distance to the cursor
Style
You can now style your tooltips using the following CSS:
#tooltip {
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid red;
padding: 3px 10px;
}
A jsfiddle for custom tooltip pattern is Here
It is based on CSS Positioning and pseduo class selectors
Check MDN docs for cross-browser support of pseudo classes
<!-- HTML -->
<p>
<a href="http://www.google.com/" class="tooltip">
I am a
<span> (This website rocks) </span></a> a developer.
</p>
/*CSS*/
a.tooltip {
position: relative;
}
a.tooltip span {
display: none;
}
a.tooltip:hover span, a.tooltip:focus span {
display:block;
position:absolute;
top:1em;
left:1.5em;
padding: 0.2em 0.6em;
border:1px solid #996633;
background-color:#FFFF66;
color:#000;
}
Native tooltip cannot be styled.
That being said, you can use some library that would show styles floating layers when element is being hovered (instead of the native tooltips, and suppress them) requiring little or no code modifications...
You cannot style the default browser tooltip. But you can use javascript to create your own custom HTML tooltips.
a[title="My site"] {
color: red;
}
This also works with any attribute you want to add for instance:
HTML
<div class="my_class" anything="whatever">My Stuff</div>
CSS
.my_class[anything="whatever"] {
color: red;
}
See it work at: http://jsfiddle.net/vpYWE/1/