CSS tooltips are very popular in modern web design and contrary to popular belief it is really easy to create them, especially with one of the all so popular javascript frameworks.

Before I started to delve deeper into this topic, I thought you have to use at least a plugin, but to get some basic tooltips all you need are about 10 lines of CSS and jQuery Code.

This Tutorial will teach you how to create such tooltips with some basic CSS and jQuery.

Creating jQuery Tooltips: the CSS

First of all take a look of what we are going to create (hover over the link block and don’t care about the background, it’s only for better demonstration of the tooltip transparency)


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I've got an admission to make: I've never used any of the Microsoft Ajax Toolkit. But recently I've been adding some mapping functionality to the project I'm working on. We wanted users to be able to pull a marker to a position on a map and have the new position updated on the server. Obviously we were going to have to use Ajax of some kind to do that. What I want to show today is how trivially easy it's proved to be to use MVC Framework on the server and jQuery on the browser to do Ajax requests and updates. JQuery is now included in the default project for the MVC Framework, so there's no excuse not to use it.

Here's a very simple scenario. I've got a a page where I want to show a list of people when I click 'Get People'. I also want to add a person to the database when I type their name into a text box and click 'Add Person'. Here's what it looks like:




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Overview

This jQuery plugin aims to replace the basic functionality provided by the standard JavaScript alert(), confirm(), and prompt() functions. What is the benefit of using custom methods? Well, a few good reasons, really:
These are completely customizable via CSS (which can make your apps look much more professional)
You can set a custom title for each dialog
IE7 users get an ugly warning and usually have to reload the page if you use a regular prompt()

These methods simulate a true modal dialog box. They will automatically re-position themselves if you resize the browser window (unlike many existing dialog/lightbox-style plugins). If you include the jQuery UI Draggable plugin, the dialogs can be moved by dragging their title bars. Everything you need to produce the dialogs in the demonstration is included in the download.
Requires jQuery 1.2.6 or above.

Implementation


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Query is awesome. I've been using it for about a year now and although I was impressed to begin with I'm liking it more and more the longer I use it and the more I find out about it's inner workings.

I'm no jQuery expert. I don't claim to be, so if there are mistakes in this article then feel free to correct me or make suggestions for improvements.

I'd call myself an «intermediate» jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I've learned over the past year. The article also ended up being a lot longer than I thought it was going to be so I'll start with a table of contents so you can skip to the bits you're interested in.

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