Comments on: JavaScript Fading Tooltips (Only 2KB) http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/javascript-fading-tooltips-only-2kb/ Free Web Resources Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:25:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Gavin Laking http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/javascript-fading-tooltips-only-2kb/comment-page-1/#comment-7367 Gavin Laking Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:26:21 +0000 http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/?p=331#comment-7367 Seems wordpress ate my rails tags, so in your views use tooltip("label", "tooltip text goes here") Sorry about that :-) Seems wordpress ate my rails tags, so in your views use

tooltip(”label”, “tooltip text goes here”)

Sorry about that :-)

]]> By: Gavin Laking http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/javascript-fading-tooltips-only-2kb/comment-page-1/#comment-7366 Gavin Laking Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:22:43 +0000 http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/?p=331#comment-7366 You can also create Rails helper to save your typing a bit (add this to app/helpers/application_helper.rb): def tooltip(label, text, html_options={}) options = {:class => ‘hotspot’, :onmouseover => “tooltip.show(’#{text}’)”, :onmouseout => “tooltip.hide();”}.merge(html_options) content_tag(:span, options) do label end end Then in your views, simply use: Hope that helps someone :-) You can also create Rails helper to save your typing a bit (add this to app/helpers/application_helper.rb):

def tooltip(label, text, html_options={})
options = {:class => ‘hotspot’, :o nmouseover => “tooltip.show(’#{text}’)”, :o nmouseout => “tooltip.hide();”}.merge(html_options)
content_tag(:span, options) do
label
end
end

Then in your views, simply use:

Hope that helps someone :-)

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