CoolTips: Create Better Looking Tooltips

CoolTips logo

CoolTips replaces regular browser tooltips with fully stylable tool tips. It uses lightweight and unobtrusive JavaScript to replace conventional web-browser tooltips.

CoolTips sample

CoolTips automagically gets contents from the title attribute by utilizing the Prototype JavaScript framework. It uses script.aculo.us for animation. Both frameworks will need to be initialized to for it to work.

Link: CoolTips homepage

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One Response to “CoolTips: Create Better Looking Tooltips”

  1. Joe Says:
    August 26th, 2008 at 3:12 am

    How much text can one put into the title attribute before the search engines start looking at it as spamming? Is there a recommended amount of text one can put in there?

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