How about jClue? ;-) jSuperTip? Jack Born described the original jTip
as "Tooltips on Steroids"
the "infoWidget" hehehe. I'm terrible at naming.
It's looking great Karl. I can't wait until it goes GM!
On May 15, 6:13 pm, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I've been toying around with a new version of the jTip plugin, which
> was originally created by Cody Lindley.
>
> This one is a complete re-write, and like Klaus's Thickbox Reloaded,
> it uses the more jQuery-ish syntax. So, now you can do something like
> this to have a jTip appear when you hover over a link:
> $('a').jtip();
>
> An example of the HTML markup would be:
> <a href="http://www.learningjquery.com"; rel="local-ajax-file.html"
> title="about learning jquery">learningjquery.com</a>
>
> It's in alpha stage right now, so don't expect it to perform
> perfectly yet. I'm going to re-work the ajax options a bit and also
> allow for showing content from the current page in the jTip. There
> are a couple small issues with the CSS in IE6 (so what's new?) and
> I'll probably borrow from Klaus's png fix for the drop shadow (if
> he'll let me. :-) )
>
> Here is a list of the currently working options:
> # width: default is 275;
> # attribute: default is 'rel'; set it to some other attribute of the
> link to designate that attribute as the one that refers to the jTip's
> content
> # sticky: default is false; set to true if you want the jTip to
> remain open when you "mouse out" of the link. This option also places
> a "close" link on the jTip itself.
> # closePosition: default is 'top'; set to 'bottom' to put the 'close'
> link at the bottom of the jTip
> # closeText: default is 'Close'; set it to something else if you want to
> # hoverClass: default is an empty string; set to the name of the
> class to add that class to the link on hover
> # loadImage: default is 'wait.gif'; not implemented yet
> # truncate: default is 0, which means there will be no truncation;
> set it to some number to truncate the jTip's contents to n characters
> # dataType: default is 'html'
>
> Adding a jTip with options looks like this:
>
> $('#examples a.myclass').jtip({
> hoverClass: 'highlight',
> attribute: 'name',
> sticky: true,
> closePosition: 'bottom',
> closeText: 'Close [x]'
> truncate: 80
>
> });
>
> If any of you would like to take a look, I would greatly appreciate
> any feedback you have to offer. Here is the URL of a demo page with a
> few notes:
> http://test.learningjquery.com/jtip/
>
> Also, I'm not crazy about the name (jTip), especially since this
> version is quite a departure from Cody's original, so if anyone has
> an idea for a new name, I'd love to hear it!
>
> Oh, one more thing: Thanks a lot to Shelane Enos for compiling a list
> of feature requests and motivating me to actually put this together!
>
> thanks,
>
> --Karl
> _________________
> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
