[jQuery] Re: Cluetip with textarea

2009-06-30 Thread johhnnyboy
? On 29 jun, 20:34, johhnnyboy johhnnybo...@hotmail.com wrote: But say I really would like to? On 29 jun, 19:32, Karl Swedberg k...@englishrules.com wrote: I don't think cluetip is the best tool for that job. I wrote a tutorial long ago about showing a preview for textareas. I'd  

[jQuery] Re: Cluetip with textarea

2009-06-30 Thread Karl Swedberg
I'd say don't do it. The clueTip plugin was never meant for that sort of thing. It goes through all sorts of positioning calculations each time it appears, and it always hides the div before it shows it again (for various reasons), so you'd probably get some weird flickering and tons of

[jQuery] Re: Cluetip with textarea

2009-06-30 Thread johhnnyboy
Stupid maybe but i like the shadow option and the arrow... On 30 jun, 17:03, Karl Swedberg k...@englishrules.com wrote: I'd say don't do it. The clueTip plugin was never meant for that sort   of thing. It goes through all sorts of positioning calculations each   time it appears, and it always

[jQuery] Re: Cluetip with textarea

2009-06-30 Thread Karl Swedberg
if you want to create a shadow the same way (there are lots of other ways to do it), you can just use this code: $(document).ready(function() { var $dropShadow = $([]), dropShadowSteps = 6; for (var i=0; i dropShadowSteps; i++) { $dropShadow =

[jQuery] Re: Cluetip with textarea

2009-06-29 Thread Karl Swedberg
I don't think cluetip is the best tool for that job. I wrote a tutorial long ago about showing a preview for textareas. I'd just do something simple like that and position the preview div with CSS. http://www.learningjquery.com/2006/11/really-simple-live-comment-preview --Karl

[jQuery] Re: Cluetip with textarea

2009-06-29 Thread johhnnyboy
But say I really would like to? On 29 jun, 19:32, Karl Swedberg k...@englishrules.com wrote: I don't think cluetip is the best tool for that job. I wrote a tutorial long ago about showing a preview for textareas. I'd   just do something simple like that and position the preview div with