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CSS Tooltips
This is a simple demonstration of using custom CSS tooltips as a drop-in replacement for the browser-based title attribute. No time like the present—
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/* css/tooltip.css -- fancy tooltips */
span.tool {
position: relative; /* this is key */
cursor: help;
}
span.tool span.tip {
display: none; /* so is this */
}
/* tooltip will display on :hover event */
span.tool:hover span.tip {
display: block;
z-index: 100;
position: absolute;
top: 2.5em;
left: 0;
width: auto;
line-height: 1.2em;
padding: 3px 7px 4px 6px;
border: 1px solid #336;
background-color: #f7f7ee;
font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: normal;
color: #000;
text-align: left;
}
#content span.tool::after {
padding-left: 2px; /* eye candy */
content: url(/img/bubble.gif);
}
/* css/tooltip.css */
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Last updated: Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 @ 11:28 PM EST [2005-11-30T04:28:25Z]
