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jQuery UI Cookbook

You're reading from  jQuery UI Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162186
Pages 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Adam Boduch Adam Boduch
Profile icon Adam Boduch
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

jQuery UI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Creating Accordions 2. Including Autocompletes 3. Crafting Buttons 4. Developing Datepickers 5. Adding Dialogs 6. Making Menus 7. Progress Bars 8. Using Sliders 9. Using Spinners 10. Using Tabs 11. Using Tooltips 12. Widgets and More! Index

Using custom markup in tooltips


We're not limited to using the title attribute to supply basic text strings to the tooltip content. Sometimes, the content of the tooltip widget warrants formatting. For example, a title section would have different font styles than that of the main text section. The tooltip widget allows developers to pass in custom content through the content option. This can either be a raw string, or a function that returns the content we would like displayed. Let's look at how to go about using this option in your application.

How to do it...

We'll create two button elements; each have a title attribute, the text of which we'll use in the tooltip. We're also going to add the name of the button as the tooltip title.

<div class="button-container">
    <button title="Logs the user in by establishing a new session.">Login</button>
</div>
<div class="button-container">
    <button title="Deactivates the session, and logs the user out.">Logout...
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