Scrolling Tooltip Script
Description: An alternate version of the tooltip script that creates a "scrolling" tooltip. Definitely more eye catching, if nothing else. (Note that in IE, the tooltip will only be enabled after the document has completed loading) View notes below for cross-browser rendering issues.
Demo
Dynamic Drive
Website Abstraction
Yahoo
Cnet
Techweb
Step 1: Insert the below into the <body> section of your web page, right after the <body> tag itself, before anything else:
Giving text links a tooltip:
Having done the above, the procedure for giving text links or image maps a
scrolling tooltip is virtually identical to that of the standard tooltip script. Simply
insert the below into either the <a> tag of the text link, or right alongside the
href attribute of each image spot:
onMouseover="showtip2(this,event,'Visit Dynamic Drive for DHTML Scripts!')" onMouseout="hidetip2()"
with the part in red representing the text you want shown inside the tip.