Tooltip replaces native tooltips, making them themeable as well as allowing various customizations:
- Display other content than just the title, like inline footnotes or extra content retrieved via Ajax.
- Customize the positioning, e.g., to center the tooltip above elements.
- Add extra styling to customize the appearance, for warning or error fields.
A fade animation is used by default to show and hide the tooltip, making the appearance a bit more organic, compared to just toggling the visibility. This can be customized with the show
and hide
options.
The items
and content
options need to stay in-sync. If you change one of them, you need to change the other.
In general, disabled elements do not trigger any DOM events. Therefore, it is not possible to properly control tooltips for disabled elements, since we need to listen to events to determine when to show and hide the tooltip. As a result, jQuery UI does not guarantee any level of support for tooltips attached to disabled elements. Unfortunately, this means that if you require tooltips on disabled elements, you may end up with a mixture of native tooltips and jQuery UI tooltips.
Keyboard interaction
When the tooltip is open and the corresponding item has focus, the following key commands are available:
-
ESCAPE
: Close the tooltip.
Theming
The tooltip widget uses the jQuery UI CSS framework to style its look and feel. If tooltip specific styling is needed, the following CSS class names can be used:
-
ui-tooltip
: The outer container for the tooltip.-
ui-tooltip-content
: The content of the tooltip.
-
Dependencies
- UI Core
- Widget Factory
- Position
- Effects Core (optional; for use with the
show
andhide
options)
- This widget requires some functional CSS, otherwise it won't work. If you build a custom theme, use the widget's specific CSS file as a starting point.
function returning the title attribute
The content of the tooltip.
When changing this option, you likely need to also change the items
option.
Multiple types supported:
- Function: A callback which can either return the content directly, or call the first argument, passing in the content, e.g., for Ajax content.
- String: A string of HTML to use for the tooltip content.
Code examples:
Initialize the tooltip with the content
option specified:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip({ content: "Awesome title!" });
Get or set the content
option, after initialization:
// Getter var content = $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "content" ); // Setter $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "content", "Awesome title!" );
false
true
.Code examples:
Initialize the tooltip with the disabled
option specified:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip({ disabled: true });
Get or set the disabled
option, after initialization:
// Getter var disabled = $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "disabled" ); // Setter $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "disabled", true );
true
Multiple types supported:
- Boolean: When set to
false
, no animation will be used and the tooltip will be hidden immediately. When set totrue
, the tooltip will fade out with the default duration and the default easing. - Number: The tooltip will fade out with the specified duration and the default easing.
- String: The tooltip will be hidden using the specified effect. The value can either be the name of a built-in jQuery animation method, such as
"slideUp"
, or the name of a jQuery UI effect, such as"fold"
. In either case the effect will be used with the default duration and the default easing. - Object: If the value is an object, then
effect
,delay
,duration
, andeasing
properties may be provided. If theeffect
property contains the name of a jQuery method, then that method will be used; otherwise it is assumed to be the name of a jQuery UI effect. When using a jQuery UI effect that supports additional settings, you may include those settings in the object and they will be passed to the effect. Ifduration
oreasing
is omitted, then the default values will be used. Ifeffect
is omitted, then"fadeOut"
will be used. Ifdelay
is omitted, then no delay is used.
Code examples:
Initialize the tooltip with the hide
option specified:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip({ hide: { effect: "explode", duration: 1000 } });
Get or set the hide
option, after initialization:
// Getter var hide = $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "hide" ); // Setter $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "hide", { effect: "explode", duration: 1000 } );
[title]
A selector indicating which items should show tooltips. Customize if you're using something other than the title attribute for the tooltip content, or if you need a different selector for event delegation.
When changing this option, you likely need to also change the content
option.
Code examples:
Initialize the tooltip with the items
option specified:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip({ items: "img[alt]" });
Get or set the items
option, after initialization:
// Getter var items = $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "items" ); // Setter $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "items", "img[alt]" );
{ my: "left top+15", at: "left bottom", collision: "flipfit" }
Identifies the position of the tooltip in relation to the associated target element. The of
option defaults to the target element, but you can specify another element to position against. You can refer to the jQuery UI Position utility for more details about the various options.
Code examples:
Initialize the tooltip with the position
option specified:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip({ position: { my: "left+15 center", at: "right center" } });
Get or set the position
option, after initialization:
// Getter var position = $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "position" ); // Setter $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "position", { my: "left+15 center", at: "right center" } );
true
Multiple types supported:
- Boolean: When set to
false
, no animation will be used and the tooltip will be shown immediately. When set totrue
, the tooltip will fade in with the default duration and the default easing. - Number: The tooltip will fade in with the specified duration and the default easing.
- String: The tooltip will be shown using the specified effect. The value can either be the name of a built-in jQuery animation method, such as
"slideDown"
, or the name of a jQuery UI effect, such as"fold"
. In either case the effect will be used with the default duration and the default easing. - Object: If the value is an object, then
effect
,delay
,duration
, andeasing
properties may be provided. If theeffect
property contains the name of a jQuery method, then that method will be used; otherwise it is assumed to be the name of a jQuery UI effect. When using a jQuery UI effect that supports additional settings, you may include those settings in the object and they will be passed to the effect. Ifduration
oreasing
is omitted, then the default values will be used. Ifeffect
is omitted, then"fadeIn"
will be used. Ifdelay
is omitted, then no delay is used.
Code examples:
Initialize the tooltip with the show
option specified:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip({ show: { effect: "blind", duration: 800 } });
Get or set the show
option, after initialization:
// Getter var show = $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "show" ); // Setter $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "show", { effect: "blind", duration: 800 } );
null
This may get replaced by the classes option.
Code examples:
Initialize the tooltip with the tooltipClass
option specified:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip({ tooltipClass: "custom-tooltip-styling" });
Get or set the tooltipClass
option, after initialization:
// Getter var tooltipClass = $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "tooltipClass" ); // Setter $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "tooltipClass", "custom-tooltip-styling" );
false
Code examples:
Initialize the tooltip with the track
option specified:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip({ track: true });
Get or set the track
option, after initialization:
// Getter var track = $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "track" ); // Setter $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "track", true );
- This method does not accept any arguments.
Invoke the close method:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip( "close" );
- This method does not accept any arguments.
Invoke the destroy method:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip( "destroy" );
- This method does not accept any arguments.
Invoke the disable method:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip( "disable" );
- This method does not accept any arguments.
Invoke the enable method:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip( "enable" );
Retrieves the tooltip's instance object. If the element does not have an associated instance, undefined
is returned.
Unlike other widget methods, instance()
is safe to call on any element after the tooltip plugin has loaded.
- This method does not accept any arguments.
Invoke the instance method:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip( "instance" );
- This method does not accept any arguments.
Invoke the open method:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip( "open" );
Gets the value currently associated with the specified optionName
.
Note: For options that have objects as their value, you can get the value of a specific key by using dot notation. For example, "foo.bar"
would get the value of the bar
property on the foo
option.
- optionNameType: StringThe name of the option to get.
Invoke the method:
var isDisabled = $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "disabled" );
- This signature does not accept any arguments.
Invoke the method:
var options = $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option" );
Sets the value of the tooltip option associated with the specified optionName
.
Note: For options that have objects as their value, you can set the value of just one property by using dot notation for optionName
. For example, "foo.bar"
would update only the bar
property of the foo
option.
- optionNameType: StringThe name of the option to set.
- valueType: ObjectA value to set for the option.
Invoke the method:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", "disabled", true );
- optionsType: ObjectA map of option-value pairs to set.
Invoke the method:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip( "option", { disabled: true } );
jQuery
object containing the original element. - This method does not accept any arguments.
Invoke the widget method:
var widget = $( ".selector" ).tooltip( "widget" );
tooltipclose
focusout
or mouseleave
. Initialize the tooltip with the close callback specified:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip({ close: function( event, ui ) {} });
Bind an event listener to the tooltipclose event:
$( ".selector" ).on( "tooltipclose", function( event, ui ) {} );
tooltipcreate
Note: The ui
object is empty but included for consistency with other events.
Initialize the tooltip with the create callback specified:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip({ create: function( event, ui ) {} });
Bind an event listener to the tooltipcreate event:
$( ".selector" ).on( "tooltipcreate", function( event, ui ) {} );
tooltipopen
focusin
or mouseover
. Initialize the tooltip with the open callback specified:
$( ".selector" ).tooltip({ open: function( event, ui ) {} });
Bind an event listener to the tooltipopen event:
$( ".selector" ).on( "tooltipopen", function( event, ui ) {} );
Create a tooltip on the document, using event delegation for all elements with a title attribute.
<!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>tooltip demo</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css"> <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script> <script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js"></script> </head> <body> <p> <a href="#" title="Anchor description">Anchor text</a> <input title="Input help"> </p> <script> $( document ).tooltip(); </script> </body> </html>
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