jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide

Chapter 5. Creating Custom Tooltips

Now that we've seen how powerful plugins are and how easy they make advanced functionality, let's see how we can take advantage of another plugin to make custom tooltips.

Browsers automatically create tooltips when you include the title attribute—usually on a link or an image. When your site visitor hovers their mouse cursor over the item or moves focus to the item by tabbing to it, the tooltip will appear—usually as a small yellow box that appears to be floating over the page. Tooltips are a great way to add a little additional information to your page. Screen reader software reads out tooltip text for site visitors with disabilities who are using assistive technology, making them useful for enhancing accessibility. ...