Home/ Questions/Q 6194887
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-24T03:22:16+00:00

On Firefox, when hovering the mouse over a certain table in my webpage a

  • 0

On Firefox, when hovering the mouse over a certain table in my webpage a strange [object HTMLTableCellElement] tooltip appears:

Strange tooltip

What needs to happen for this to occur? I am having a hard time narrowing what part of my code is the culprit because I don’t even know what to look for.

Edit, solved the problem:

This table belongs to a Dojo Dijit template. I accidentaly gave one of the template’s nodes the dojo-attach-point “title”, causing Dojo to, during the rendering of the Widget, do a 

this.title = the_node_with_the_bad_attach_point

The node is then converted to a string and that is where the “[object HTMLTableElement]” comes from.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Probably this:

    cell.title = cell;

    which can be described as a failed attempt to store the reference to the cell inside its own title property (which holds the string that is shown inside the tooltip on mouse-over).

    Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/VwYRP/

    Object references – when coerced to strings – usually look like so: '[object Constructor]', where Constructor is the constructor function which the browser uses to instantiate that object.

    • 0