MooTools 1.2 Tooltips: Customize Your Tips

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I’ve never met a person that is “ehhhh” about XHTML/javascript tooltips; people seem to love them or hate them. I’m on the love side of things. Tooltips give you a bit more information about something than just the element itself (usually an image or link). Netflix is a perfect example of useful tooltips. When you hover over a movie title, a tooltip displays with a quick summary, cast list, and movie rating. Thanks Netflix — you’ve saved me yet another page load! Tooltips can also provide another method of website branding. Why throw a vanilla tooltip to the user when you can brand your website? MooTools 1.2 provides a Tips plugin that allows for easy-to-customize tooltips. Let me show you how to create a

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• Saved by Frederik Van Zande on June 24, 2008.
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