September 2, 2010

RW080 Tiny Tips 2 – Add an Image

Welcome back to Tiny Tips.
In this cast I will show you how you can us an image with either the standard tip and as part of the tip’s content.

There’s also a bit on using Tiny Tip with a header class.
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RW079 TinyTips Tooltip Part1

TinyTips is a very lightweight jQuery tooltip plugin from Digital Inferno.
Join me as I show you how to add and deploy this tooltip into your design.

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Tooltip Tuesday #3 Free Show – Easier Tooltips

Tool Tip TuesdaysFree Public Show : This technique is deemed as the “Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview”.

This tooltip uses jQuery and breaks us out of our box on how we view, and can use, tooltips in our design.

You can download the 3 examples I used in this cast over at CSS Globe. Visit the link provided to the download page and grab the files…

http://cssglobe.com/post/1695/easiest-tooltip-and-image-preview-using-jquery

Hope you enjoy the free screencast.

ToolTip Tuesday #1

Tool Tip TuesdaysTo introduce our ToolTip Tuesday ( Editor : and you never know we may even pop in with some additional Quick Tips too :D  )

Here is a neat CSS solution to add funnily enough, ToolTips to your links in RapidWeaver, the same technique can be used in any other ‘sensible’ web development applcation too

Enjoy the free screencast.

HTML

<h2>By Default</h2>
<a title="RW Screencast Training" href="supportcasts.com">SupportCasts</a>
<h2>For an Active Link</h2>
<a class="tip" href="http://myrapidweaver.us">myRapidWeaver<span>Put Info Here</span></a>
<h2>Just for Information</h2>
<a class="tip" href="#">This is a tooltip<span>add text that appears just when you roll on with the mouse</span></a>
<h2>Just for Information</h2>
<a class="tip" href="#">What about an Image?<span><img src="assets/Beaker_512x512.png" alt="" width="108px" height="108px" /></span></a>

CSS

a.tip {
	position: relative;
         text-decoration: none;
}
 
a.tip span {
	display: none;
	position: absolute;
	top: -10px;
	left: 100px;
	width: 150px;
	z-index: 100;
	background: #ccc;
	border: 2px solid red;
	padding: 10px 0 10px 20px;
	color: #000;
	font-weight: bold;
	-moz-border-radius: 5px; /* this works only in camino/firefox */
	-webkit-border-radius: 5px; /* this is just for Safari */
	-webkit-box-shadow: -5px -5px 15px #222;
	-moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 15px #ccc;
	box-shadow: 10px 10px 15px #ccc;
}
 
a:hover.tip {
	font-size: 99%; /* this is just for IE */
}
 
a:hover.tip span {
	display: block;
}
 
/*pageHeader CSS*/
 
#pageHeader h2 {
color: #000;
text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #ddccb5;
}
 
/*footer CSS*/
#footer p {
font-size: 14px;
color: #000;
font-weight: bold;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 4px #ddccb5;
}
 
a:link {
text-decoration: none
}