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Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone
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Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone

by Todd Parker, Patty Toland, Scott Jehl, Maggie Costello Wachs
February 2010
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 43m
English
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Chapter Ten. Tooltips

Tooltips are used to present content “on demand” in an interface—typically, secondary content like a simple text description for an icon button, detail for a data point on a chart, or helpful field-level instruction in a form—so that users can gain greater context without having to interrupt what they’re reading or doing. Tooltip content generally displays as a small overlay that appears when the user places their cursor over an element.

Most browsers include a standard tooltip feature by default: any content in a title attribute assigned to an HTML tag will render as a tooltip when the user hovers the cursor over an element for about a second. However, these standard browser tooltips have a fixed appearance (usually a ...

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