Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:17 PM
In my search for an awesome light weight tooltip, I can across these and a whole lot more, figured I’ll post them and save you the work. I didn’t take the time to review them so its all on you.
- Tipsy is a jQuery plugin for creating a Facebook-like tooltips effect based on an anchor tag's title attribute - http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/tipsy/
- ColorTip is a jQuery Tooltip Plugin - http://tutorialzine.com/2010/07/colortips-jquery-tooltip-plugin/
- clueTip - The clueTip plugin allows you to easily show a fancy tooltip when the user's mouse hovers over (or, optionally, clicks on) any element you designate in your script. If the element includes a title attribute, its text becomes the heading of the clueTip. - http://plugins.learningjquery.com/cluetip/#getting-started
- Simple tooltip - http://dev.mariusilie.net/content/simple-tooltip-jquery-plugin
- Orbital Tooltip - The concept behind the Orbital Tooltip is to allow more flexibility to developers needing more specific positioning for their tooltips. With this jQuery plugin, you can position a tooltip around any element in a 360 degrees around it - http://www.userfirst.com/our-blog/2008/12/01/orbital-tooltip/
- BsTip - http://benchsketch.com/bquery/index.html
- Simpletip - Simpletip is a plugin for the popular jQuery JavaScript library. It allows you to create tooltips with ease on any element on the page using the power of jQuery's selectors and event management. The tooltips can be static, dynamic, or even loaded through AJAX with a variety of different visual effects. - http://craigsworks.com/projects/simpletip/
- jQuery plugin: Tooltip -http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-tooltip/
- jQuery TOOLS tooltip - http://flowplayer.org/tools/tooltip/index.html
- Popup Bubble: - http://www.dvq.co.nz/web-design/create-a-jquery-popup-bubble-effect/
- vTip - http://www.vertigo-project.com/projects/vtip
- qTip is an advanced tooltip plugin for the ever popular jQuery JavaScript framework. - http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip/
- BeautyTips is a jQuery tooltips plugin which uses the canvas drawing element in the HTML5 spec to dynamically draw tooltips (sometimes called "talk bubbles" or "help balloons") associated with a html element on the page. - http://www.lullabot.com/files/bt/bt-latest/DEMO/index.html
- TinyTips - http://www.mikemerritt.me/demos/tt-1-1/index.html