This can be done easily with the mouseover event as well. I've done it and it doesn't take 200 lines at all. Start with triggering the event, then use a function that will create the tooltip.
$('span.clickme').mouseover(function(event) {
createTooltip(event);
}).mouseout(function(){
// create a hidefunction on the callback if you want
//hideTooltip();
});
function createTooltip(event){
$('<div class="tooltip">test</div>').appendTo('body');
positionTooltip(event);
};
Then you create a function that position the tooltip with the offset position of the DOM-element that triggered the mouseover event, this is doable with css.
function positionTooltip(event){
var tPosX = event.pageX - 10;
var tPosY = event.pageY - 100;
$('div.tooltip').css({'position': 'absolute', 'top': tPosY, 'left': tPosX});
};
Ok, after some work I'm able to get a "bubble" to pop up and go away at all the right times. There is a LOT of styling that needs to happen still but this is basically the code i used.
<script type="text/javascript">
//--indicates the mouse is currently over a div
var onDiv = false;
//--indicates the mouse is currently over a link
var onLink = false;
//--indicates that the bubble currently exists
var bubbleExists = false;
//--this is the ID of the timeout that will close the window if the user mouseouts the link
var timeoutID;
function addBubbleMouseovers(mouseoverClass) {
$("."+mouseoverClass).mouseover(function(event) {
if (onDiv || onLink) {
return false;
}
onLink = true;
showBubble.call(this, event);
});
$("." + mouseoverClass).mouseout(function() {
onLink = false;
timeoutID = setTimeout(hideBubble, 150);
});
}
function hideBubble() {
clearTimeout(timeoutID);
//--if the mouse isn't on the div then hide the bubble
if (bubbleExists && !onDiv) {
$("#bubbleID").remove();
bubbleExists = false;
}
}
function showBubble(event) {
if (bubbleExists) {
hideBubble();
}
var tPosX = event.pageX + 15;
var tPosY = event.pageY - 60;
$('<div ID="bubbleID" style="top:' + tPosY + '; left:' + tPosX + '; position: absolute; display: inline; border: 2px; width: 200px; height: 150px; background-color: Red;">TESTING!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>').mouseover(keepBubbleOpen).mouseout(letBubbleClose).appendTo('body');
bubbleExists = true;
}
function keepBubbleOpen() {
onDiv = true;
}
function letBubbleClose() {
onDiv = false;
hideBubble();
}
//--TESTING!!!!!
$("document").ready(function() {
addBubbleMouseovers("temp1");
});
</script>
Here is a snippet of the html that goes with it:
<a href="" class="temp1">Mouseover this for a terribly ugly red bubble!</a>
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I'm trying to make a "bubble" that can
popup when the onmouseover event is
fired and will stay open as long as
the mouse is over the item that threw
the onmouseover event OR if the mouse
is moved into the bubble. My bubble
will need to have all manners of html
and styling including hyperlinks,
images, etc.
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You can use qTip for this; However you'd have to code a little for launching it on mouseover event; And in case you want a default watermark on your text fields, you'd have to use the watermark plugin...
I realized that this leads to lot of repetitive code; So I wrote a plugin on top of qTip that makes it really easy to attach informational popup to form fields. You can check it out here: https://bitbucket.org/gautamtandon/jquery.attachinfo