I’m a beginning web developer and I just completed my first website. It is pretty simple, and lacks in functionality. You can see it here: http://www.amritayalur.com. On the right, I have a few social media icons in a column. I want to use jQuery to display some text that labels the icon. For example, I think it would be really cool if when the Twitter icon was moused over, some small text on the left reading “Twitter” would fade in with an arrow pointing towards the icon. Is this possible?
Thanks!
There are dozens of jQuery tooltip plugins out there. I recommend you search one that fits your needs.
Personally, I found out that at first glance they all look rather identical, but when it comes to the “API” design (and documentation) there are huge differences. Also, take a look at when they last updated their code. Using a library that way updated in 2008 for the last time always makes me feel kind of uncomfortable.
In my last project I used this jQuery tooltip library.