Question

How can I delay the qTip2 plugin from closing, so that a user can click on a link within the tooltip? I want to having links to social networks when you hover over my e-mail address on my website.

Answer 1

See the hide.fixed and hide.delay properties in the documentation:

http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip2/docs/hide/#fixed

hide.fixed: When set to true, the tooltip will not hide if moused
over, allowing the contents to be clicked and interacted with.
Note: Adding a hide delay is generally done when this is enabled to
give the user time to mouseover the tooltip before hiding.

http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip2/docs/hide/#delay

hide.delay: Time in milliseconds by which to delay hiding of the
tooltip when the hide.event is triggered on the hide.target

$('.selector').qtip({
   content: {
      text: $('<a href="http://google.com">Visit Google</a>'),
   },
   hide: {
      fixed: true, // Let the user mouse into the tip
      delay: 500 // Don't hide right away so that they can mouse into it
   }
});