Question

I’m looking for a simple and customizable tooltip plugin, either plain javascript or Jquery based, which has these features:

• Bug free (Some that I’ve tried only show the tooltip sporadically and if you wave your mouse around they stop displaying)

• Customizable (i.e being able to customize the css of the tooltip, select how long the tooltip stays in place after the mouse moves away, etc)

• Must be able to programatically show/hide tooltips above any element, not just when the mouse is hovered.

Answer 1

I believe that qTip does what you are looking for. I’ve used it on several projects without problems. It’s customizable and has a well documented api that allows you to show/hide it anywhere.

http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip2/