Question

I want to take a news article and when someone mouses over a given part of the text (not a blue hyperlink)-

1. (without clicking) a pop-up will come up that has annotations/commentary on the article on that given sentence.
2. Smooth animation, not a dialog box where you have to click to exit.

I’ve looked around, but can’t find a decent example. Here is an okay one.

Any ideas on what to use? jQuery? If so, any good suggestions?

Answer 1

You could use this jquery tooltip plugin

It’s very easy to use and since the contents of the tooltip is pure HTML, it’s very customizable and flexible.

Instead of writing some example code, i’ll point you to the Demos Page

I hope this helps, if you want something more specific, let me know.