A tooltip is the yellow box that most browsers display text in when you hover over an element in the web page that has a title attribute. Not all browsers display the title attribute as a yellow box to contain the text, some display the text in the status bar instead. The other limitation is that you can only include plain text in the title attribute to display in the tooltip. We can get around all these limitations and make the tooltip look however we like by generating the tooltip from JavaScript instead.

Extended Tooltips

Tags: javascript, tooltip