There are plenty of JavaScript-based libraries that show tooltips when you hover your mouse over a certain area of a web page. Some are rather plain, some allow the tooltip to display HTML content styled with CSS.
But is there a way to show a styled tooltip without using JavaScript? If you just use the title
attribute, tags are not processed (e.g. foo<br />bar
doesn't produce a line break). I'm looking for a solution that allows one to display styled HTML content without using any JavaScript.
I have made a little example using css
.hover {
position: relative;
top: 50px;
left: 50px;
}
.tooltip {
/* hide and position tooltip */
top: -10px;
background-color: black;
color: white;
border-radius: 5px;
opacity: 0;
position: absolute;
-webkit-transition: opacity 0.5s;
-moz-transition: opacity 0.5s;
-ms-transition: opacity 0.5s;
-o-transition: opacity 0.5s;
transition: opacity 0.5s;
}
.hover:hover .tooltip {
/* display tooltip on hover */
opacity: 1;
}
<div class="hover">hover
<div class="tooltip">asdadasd
</div>
</div>
FIDDLE
http://jsfiddle.net/8gC3D/471/
Using the title attribute:
<a href="#" title="Tooltip here">Link</a>
Similar to koningdavid's, but works on display:none and block, and adds additional styling.
div.tooltip {
position: relative;
/* DO NOT include below two lines, as they were added so that the text that
is hovered over is offset from top of page*/
top: 10em;
left: 10em;
/* if want hover over icon instead of text based, uncomment below */
/* background-image: url("../images/info_tooltip.svg");
/!* width and height of svg *!/
width: 16px;
height: 16px;*/
}
/* hide tooltip */
div.tooltip span {
display: none;
}
/* show and style tooltip */
div.tooltip:hover span {
/* show tooltip */
display: block;
/* position relative to container div.tooltip */
position: absolute;
bottom: 1em;
/* prettify */
padding: 0.5em;
color: #000000;
background: #ebf4fb;
border: 0.1em solid #b7ddf2;
/* round the corners */
border-radius: 0.5em;
/* prevent too wide tooltip */
max-width: 10em;
}
<div class="tooltip">
hover_over_me
<span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec quis purus dui. Sed at orci. </span>
</div>
This one is very interesting,
HTML and CSS only
.help-tip {
position: absolute;
top: 18px;
left: 18px;
text-align: center;
background-color: #BCDBEA;
border-radius: 50%;
width: 24px;
height: 24px;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 26px;
cursor: default;
}
.help-tip:before {
content: '?';
font-weight: bold;
color: #fff;
}
.help-tip:hover span {
display: block;
transform-origin: 100% 0%;
-webkit-animation: fadeIn 0.3s ease-in-out;
animation: fadeIn 0.3s ease-in-out;
}
.help-tip span {
display: none;
text-align: left;
background-color: #1E2021;
padding: 5px;
width: 200px;
position: absolute;
border-radius: 3px;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
left: -4px;
color: #FFF;
font-size: 13px;
line-height: 1.4;
}
.help-tip span:before {
position: absolute;
content: '';
width: 0;
height: 0;
border: 6px solid transparent;
border-bottom-color: #1E2021;
left: 10px;
top: -12px;
}
.help-tip span:after {
width: 100%;
height: 40px;
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: -40px;
left: 0;
}
<span class="help-tip">
<span > This is the inline help tip! </span>
</span>
You can use the title attribute, e.g. if you want to have a Tooltip over a text, just make:
<span title="This is a Tooltip">This is a text</span>
Another similar way to do it by css:
<style>
#img { }
#img:hover {visibility:hidden}
#thistext {font-size:22px;color:white }
#thistext:hover {color:black;}
#hoverme {width:50px;height:50px;
}
#hoverme:hover { background-color:green;position:absolute ;left:300px;top:100px;width:40%;height:20%;}
</style>
<p id="hoverme"><img id="img" src="http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/l/o/lol-cat.jpg"></img><span id="thistext">LOCATZ!!!!</span></p>
Try it: http://jsfiddle.net/FdBu7/
And here is some links about transitions and new ways to do it:
http://www.w3schools.com/css3/css3_transitions.asp
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/css3-show-and-hide/
This is my solution for this:
https://gist.github.com/BryanMoslo/808f7acb1dafcd049a1aebbeef8c2755
The element recibes a "tooltip-title" attribute with the tooltip text and it is displayed with CSS on hover, I prefer this solution because I don't have to include the tooltip text as a HTML element!