I'm trying to get a tooltip for an SVG element. (Testing under Firefox 16.0.2) I tried this little example and it works fine:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<rect id="test" x="20" y="30" width="200" height="150">
<title>Test tooltip</title>
</rect>
</svg>
But, I need to generate the tooltip from javascript, as the SVG is also being generated from javascript. So just as a first test, I tried generating just the tooltip:
<script type="text/javascript">
function test(text) {
var title = document.createElement("title")
title.text = text
document.getElementById("test").appendChild(title)
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="test('Test tooltip')">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<rect id="test" x="20" y="30" width="200" height="150">
</rect>
</svg>
When I inspect the results from Firefox the title objects appears identical to the title generated from the HTML/SVG, except that when I mouse over the rectangle there is no tooltip! What am I doing wrong?