Tooltips

Description

Display text or an image to your users when they hover their mouse pointer over an item, without clicking it, by using Tooltips.

When a user moves their pointer to text, or an image, for which you have defined a tooltip, a small "hover box" appears. This box can contain text or an image. Optionally the text can contain html formatting including URLs.

The syntax simply looks like:

{tip Wow!::Now I can give something a cool tooltip!}This text has a tooltip.{/tip}

The result is: This text has a tooltip.

 Use it anywhere

You can create these tooltips almost anywhere in your site. Not only in articles, but anywhere you can enter text, like in modules and components.

The tooltips are fully stylable through settings and CSS.

Joomla 2.5 vs Joomla 3

There is a big difference in the Tooltips version for Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3. Not only in the way it looks, but also in functionality.

The Joomla 2.5 version of Tooltips is based on the tips functionality of Mootools (which comes with Joomla 2.5 core).

The Joomla 3 version of Tooltips is based on the popover functionality of Bootstrap (which comes with Joomla 3 core).

The examples on this site are based on the Joomla 2.5 version. To see the Joomla 3 version in action, see the Demo.

For more information see the User Guide.

Other Tutorials, Guides and Videos

• Virtuemart Image Tooltip
  Tutorial by Thomas Kahl (VirtuemartExpert) (5 July 2011)

Requirements

Tooltips will only work correctly if your setup meets these requirements:

• Up-to-date version of Joomla 2.5 or 3.x (No Joomla 1.5 support!)
• PHP 5.3+ (No PHP 5.2 support!)
• MySQL 5+

Important: I can only provide support for setups that:

• meet the above requirements;
• do not have extension files or Joomla! core files which have been altered in any way.

Languages

Tooltips comes packed with the following languages:

Open Source License

Tooltips is an Open Source Joomla! extension. It is in compliance with the GNU/GPL license:
GNU General Public License, version 2

Joomla! is also Open Source.