Monday, December 21, 2009

40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS

Web users love informative clues. Whatever questions and misunderstandings might occur – delivering precise answers immediately is the primary task a responsive user interface should be able to cope with. To do that, developers have to consider subtle and well-thought tooltips – used correctly, they can greatly improve user experience and help users to get things done. In Web such “responsive” hints can be provided by tooltips. E.g., unclear input fields in web forms are perfect examples of a situation you might be willing to use a tooltip for.
Most of solutions are JavaScript- and AJAX-based, however we’ve also managed to find some lightweight CSS-based solutions. To install and use the script, it’s often enough to include the JavaScript library in the source code and provide the hint as plain text within the “title”-attribute. Sometimes you can also insert URLs, images, tables and further elements – basically, it can be almost everything you’d ever wanted it to be.
We’d like to thank Jurgen Koller for compiling an extensive list of tooltip scripts we’ve stumbled upon during our search. It gives many useful pointers, but we’ve managed to find some more. You might be willing to use Koller’s post as a quick reference for your search.
Let’s take a look at 43 handy tooltips scripts for intuitive and well-designed visual clues. It’s nice to have them all in one place, once you need them. It’s nice to be able to find them, once you don’t have time to search for them.

Simple Tooltip:

Tooltips: AJAX & JavaScript Solutions

  • Nice Titles Revised
    An improved Nice Titles Tooltip Script with Accesskeys support.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-22 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • A lightweight prototype based JavaScript tooltip
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-37 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • Nice Titles
    A classic. The script uses a background image.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-21 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • AJAX-enabled Help-BalloonsHelp windows in baloon-design. AJAXified version is also available.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-5 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • jTip – A jQuery Tool Tip
    Extensive AJAX-based tooltips with numerous functions and presentation possibilities.
    Jtip in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • jQuery plugin: Tooltip
    Enhances the jQuery Library.
    Jquery in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • qTip
    Works for all elements, not only for links in most browsers – IE 5.5+, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-6 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • Form field hints with CSS Tooltips
    t’s a basic example of how helpful a little JavaScript and CSS can be in a form. Instead of the input hints always showing and potentionally cluttering a very simple form, only the hint for the currently focused input will show. This article will show a way to do this.
    Tooltips-ask in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • JS Tooltip
    Displays customizable tool tip message for each link element on a web page. A tool tip that can be added to the anchor element unobtrusively by adding a class value to it. This was done by having the tool tip message pull from the specific title attribute of the anchor element that the tool tip was added too.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-0 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • BoxOver
    Flexible DHTML-Tooltipp in numerous formats. Appears (almost) immedately and fades in during loading.
    Boxover in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • SuperNotes
    Converts footnotes to tooltips. Appears immediately and can be assigned with a fixed position in the browser window.
    Supernotes in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • Tipster
    Multifunctional tool tips with JavaScript.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-9 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • 5 Tooltips by DHTMLGoodies
    First version is suppose to improve the usability of online forms:
    Form in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • The second technique uses AJAX.
    Goodie in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • Walter Zorns JavaScript, DHTML Tooltipps
    These tooltips can be used for different purposes; the code is well-documented and can easily be improved and modified.
    Zorn in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • clueTip
    This is a demo page for the new clueTip — a jQuery-based, AJAX-powered tooltip. The clueTip plug-in was inspired by Cody Lindley’s jTip script.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-14 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • Mootools Tooltip
    Mootools Javascript example of using tooltips.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-12 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • Sweet Titles
    JavaScript Fading Tooltips.
  • Hover Tip
    Tooltip with menu-like capabilities. The tooltip layer will remain visible while the viewer hovers over it. This allows you to place clickable links inside tooltip content.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-15 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • Multiline Tooltip with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
    This document explains how to make nice multiline tooltip for HTML documents, using simple and standard CSS, HTML and JavaScript.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-16 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • overLIB
    This JavaScript-library can be used in a variety of ways; many positioning and appearance features are available.
    Overlib in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • Scriptaculous Effect.Tooltip
    The tooltip script from the script.aculo.us library.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-18 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • Tooltip.js
    Tooltipps with AJAX. The library uses the Prototype JavaScript Framework. The demo doesn’t work any longer.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-19 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS

CSS-Based Solutions

Further Solutions

  • Snap.com
    Snap gives you a visual preview of each result before you click on it. And that improves your odds of picking the right search, without clicking back-and-forth several times.
    Tooltips-snap in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • DHTML Tooltips
    Popup a help tip or information layer onmouseover using this object-based DHTML tooltip code. The basic version, presented on this page, can contain plain text or rich html, images, or images and text. The tooltip can be displayed over a background image. It can move with mouse movement. And it is easy to customize and modify.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-35 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • Animated Tooltip Javascript
  • DOM Tooltip
    DOM Tooltip Script-Library
  • Yahoo! UI Library: Tooltip
    The Yahoo! UI Library Toolbox provides among other functions also tooltips.

Tooltips: Wordpress-Plugins

  • WP – Bubble Tooltips (Plugin)
    A Wordpress-Plugin can change the appearance of links. Based on Bubble Tooltipps developed by Web-Graphics.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-40 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • FancyTooltips
    Further Wordpress-Plugin with similar functionality.
    Tooltips-scripts-ajax-css-javascript-41 in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
  • Fancy Tooltips
    Fancy in 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS

Selected Scripts: Quick Overview

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