Forum Tooltips

[Molly Jepson]

A few people have reported it but others say it does not happen for them. It doesn't appear to be specific to the exact elements so much as ones past a certain point on the screen, if that makes a difference? (It's happening on multiple profiles and regardless of the exact members online at the time)

[Brian]

Jun 19, 2016 14:26:08 GMT -8 Molly Jepson said:

A few people have reported it but others say it does not happen for them. It doesn't appear to be specific to the exact elements so much as ones past a certain point on the screen, if that makes a difference? (It's happening on multiple profiles and regardless of the exact members online at the time)

Would you be able to share the screen resolution you're currently at? (assuming your browsing window is maximized)

[Molly Jepson]

My resolution is 1280x800

I greatly apologize for asking you to look into this issue when the answer was so simple: the affected browsers were not maximized, and it looks that is literally all that was causing this to happen. Once the browser was made full-screen the problem no longer happened. Again, I'm sorry for the silly question with such a simple solution.

[Brian]

Jun 19, 2016 15:29:27 GMT -8 Molly Jepson said:

My resolution is 1280x800

I greatly apologize for asking you to look into this issue when the answer was so simple: the affected browsers were not maximized, and it looks that is literally all that was causing this to happen. Once the browser was made full-screen the problem no longer happened. Again, I'm sorry for the silly question with such a simple solution.

That seems to have been the missing piece. I duplicated it this time by shrinking my window.

The thing about the plugin is that it relies on one small line of preexisting jQuery code to add the tooltips. I didn't really do anything special when creating this plugin other than telling it to loop through the elements you've specified in its settings and run this code on them:

$('Your selector here').tipTip({ maxWidth: 200, delay: 0, defaultPosition: 'top' });

The built-in tipTip() function does the rest of the work automatically. However, because of that I don't have any control over how it sizes your tooltips under those particular circumstances. Any remaining styling is dependent on a mix of how the tipTip() function was built by the authors of jQuery and whatever you're able to accomplish using CSS.

[Molly Jepson]

Sorry to bother you again, are there any known conflicting plugins with Forum Tooltips? The plugin doesn't work all of the time on our site and it seems to be very hit or miss. I haven't been able to find a pattern to it yet.

[Brian]

Jul 7, 2016 7:59:26 GMT -8 Molly Jepson said:

Sorry to bother you again, are there any known conflicting plugins with Forum Tooltips? The plugin doesn't work all of the time on our site and it seems to be very hit or miss. I haven't been able to find a pattern to it yet.

None that I know of.

Can you link to a page showing an example of this, as well as citing which elements should be producing tooltips when being hovered over?

[Molly Jepson]

This is the most recent place it was noticed. All display names/tags are meant to display the tooltip when hovered, but sometimes the ones in the posts display the standard browser tooltip even when the display names in profiles, avatars, etc. still display the Forum Tooltip as intended.

Note though that this is not consistent: sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't, and I'm not really sure what is making the difference.

[Brian]

If I had to hazard a guess I'd say it's due to the Style Tag plugin changing the post after the tooltips have been added.

The easiest potential fix to this is to move the Forum Tooltips plugin to the bottom of your plugin list so that it executes after the Style Tags plugin makes its changes rather than before.

[Molly Jepson]

Thank you, I'd thought it might have something to do with plugin order but I wasn't sure whether it needed to be at the top or bottom. I'll try this and be on the lookout for any signs it didn't help.

[adm1n0]

Thank you very much for this Brian! Love it!!

One question: Can it be set that images open in a new tab when clicked?
That would make this Plugin 100% perfect!

[Brian]

Nov 14, 2016 21:58:32 GMT -8 adm1n0 said:

Thank you very much for this Brian ! Love it!!

One question: Can it be set that images open in a new tab when clicked?
That would make this Plugin 100% perfect!

You'd need to use another plugin or code for that. Sorry!

[adm1n0]

Ok, thanks much for your reply!

[Sàm]

Brian,

Would it be possible to set a tooltip via this plugin that displays a member's custom title information on hover? For example, on one of my sites, we include a student character's year at school in the custom title; could we set a tooltip that displays that year in the tooltip when hovering over the name in the info center, the boards listing, etc.?

On the same note, could other "custom" information be added to hovers without use of the custom title functionality?

I hope that makes sense. :') Thank you in advance for any assistance you could provide!

[Brian]

Nov 21, 2016 0:08:51 GMT -8 Sàm said:

Brian ,

Would it be possible to set a tooltip via this plugin that displays a member's custom title information on hover? For example, on one of my sites, we include a student character's year at school in the custom title; could we set a tooltip that displays that year in the tooltip when hovering over the name in the info center, the boards listing, etc.?

On the same note, could other "custom" information be added to hovers without use of the custom title functionality?

I hope that makes sense. :') Thank you in advance for any assistance you could provide!

The plugin can only obtain user information based on what's present on the page. It would only be possible to add a user's custom title to their display name tooltip if it was already specified as their hover text. Since the @ username is the title that is automatically assigned to display names by the forum the plugin can only reference that.

Unfortunately, your choices are to either manually specify information in the plugin or to use information that's already assigned as the title of an element. The plugin has no means of obtaining information that isn't already there.

[Sàm]

Brian,

Thank you for your answer!

On that note, could specific usernames (i.e. admin) be given specific tooltips inputted manually through the plugin? For example, if I wanted the tooltip for the admin account to read "fluffy bunnies" as well as @admin, is that possible (and if so, how)?

It's a great plugin either way, and I'm sorry for all the questions! (I've just recently gotten back into coding/designing/using plugins, so I'm trying to learn it all.)

Thank you again, and thank you in advance for your next reply.