[javascript] jQuery Popup Bubble/Tooltip

I'm trying to make a "bubble" that can popup when the onmouseover event is fired and will stay open as long as the mouse is over the item that threw the onmouseover event OR if the mouse is moved into the bubble. My bubble will need to have all manners of HTML and styling including hyperlinks, images, etc.

I've basically accomplished this by writing about 200 lines of ugly JavaScript but I would really like to find a jQuery plugin or some other way to clean this up a bit.

Tiptip is also a nice library.

ColorTip is the most beautiful i've ever seen

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Ok, after some work I'm able to get a "bubble" to pop up and go away at all the right times. There is a LOT of styling that needs to happen still but this is basically the code i used.

<script type="text/javascript">
    //--indicates the mouse is currently over a div
    var onDiv = false;
    //--indicates the mouse is currently over a link
    var onLink = false;
    //--indicates that the bubble currently exists
    var bubbleExists = false;
    //--this is the ID of the timeout that will close the window if the user mouseouts the link
    var timeoutID;

    function addBubbleMouseovers(mouseoverClass) {
        $("."+mouseoverClass).mouseover(function(event) {
            if (onDiv || onLink) {
                return false;
            }

            onLink = true;

            showBubble.call(this, event);
        });

        $("." + mouseoverClass).mouseout(function() {
            onLink = false;
            timeoutID = setTimeout(hideBubble, 150);
        });
    }

    function hideBubble() {
        clearTimeout(timeoutID);
        //--if the mouse isn't on the div then hide the bubble
        if (bubbleExists && !onDiv) {
             $("#bubbleID").remove();

             bubbleExists = false;
        }
    }

    function showBubble(event) {
        if (bubbleExists) {
            hideBubble();
        }

        var tPosX = event.pageX + 15;
        var tPosY = event.pageY - 60;
        $('<div ID="bubbleID" style="top:' + tPosY + '; left:' + tPosX + '; position: absolute; display: inline; border: 2px; width: 200px; height: 150px; background-color: Red;">TESTING!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>').mouseover(keepBubbleOpen).mouseout(letBubbleClose).appendTo('body');

        bubbleExists = true;
    }

    function keepBubbleOpen() {
        onDiv = true;
    }

    function letBubbleClose() {
        onDiv = false;

        hideBubble();
    }


    //--TESTING!!!!!
    $("document").ready(function() {
        addBubbleMouseovers("temp1");
    });
</script>

Here is a snippet of the html that goes with it:

<a href="" class="temp1">Mouseover this for a terribly ugly red bubble!</a>

This can be done easily with the mouseover event as well. I've done it and it doesn't take 200 lines at all. Start with triggering the event, then use a function that will create the tooltip.

$('span.clickme').mouseover(function(event) {
    createTooltip(event);               
}).mouseout(function(){
    // create a hidefunction on the callback if you want
    //hideTooltip(); 
});

function createTooltip(event){          
    $('<div class="tooltip">test</div>').appendTo('body');
    positionTooltip(event);        
};

Then you create a function that position the tooltip with the offset position of the DOM-element that triggered the mouseover event, this is doable with css.

function positionTooltip(event){
    var tPosX = event.pageX - 10;
    var tPosY = event.pageY - 100;
    $('div.tooltip').css({'position': 'absolute', 'top': tPosY, 'left': tPosX});
};

QTip has bug with jQuery 1.4.2. I had to switch to jQuery Bubble Pop up http://www.vegabit.com/jquery_bubble_popup_v2/#examples and it works great!

You can use qTip for this; However you'd have to code a little for launching it on mouseover event; And in case you want a default watermark on your text fields, you'd have to use the watermark plugin...

I realized that this leads to lot of repetitive code; So I wrote a plugin on top of qTip that makes it really easy to attach informational popup to form fields. You can check it out here: https://bitbucket.org/gautamtandon/jquery.attachinfo

Hope this helps.

Sounds to me you dn't want the mouse over events: you want the jQuery hover() event.

And what you seem to want is a "rich" tooltip, in which case I suggest jQuery tooltip. With the bodyHandler option you can put arbitrary HTML in.

Autoresize simple Popup Bubble

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  <link href="bubble.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
  <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
  <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="bubble.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <br/><br/>
  <div class="bubbleInfo">
      <div class="bubble" title="Text 1">Set cursor</div>
  </div>
  <br/><br/><br/><br/>
  <div class="bubbleInfo">
      <div class="bubble" title="Text 2">Set cursor</div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

bubble.js

$(function () {     
  var i = 0;
  var z=1;
  do{
    title = $('.bubble:eq('+i+')').attr('title');
    if(!title){
      z=0;
    } else {
       $('.bubble:eq('+i+')').after('<table style="opacity: 0; top: -50px; left: -33px; display: none;" id="dpop" class="popup"><tbody><tr><td id="topleft" class="corner"></td><td class="top"></td><td id="topright" class="corner"></td></tr><tr><td class="left"></td><td>'+title+'</td><td class="right"></td></tr><tr><td class="corner" id="bottomleft"></td><td class="bottom"><img src="bubble/bubble-tail.png" height="25px" width="30px" /></td><td id="bottomright" class="corner"></td></tr></tbody></table>');
       $('.bubble:eq('+i+')').removeAttr('title');
    }
    i++;
  }while(z>0)

  $('.bubbleInfo').each(function () {
    var distance = 10;
    var time = 250;
    var hideDelay = 500;        
    var hideDelayTimer = null;       
    var beingShown = false;
    var shown = false;
    var trigger = $('.bubble', this);
    var info = $('.popup', this).css('opacity', 0);        

    $([trigger.get(0), info.get(0)]).mouseover(function () {
      if (hideDelayTimer) clearTimeout(hideDelayTimer);
      if (beingShown || shown) {
        // don't trigger the animation again
        return;
      } else {
        // reset position of info box
        beingShown = true;

        info.css({
        top: -40,
        left: 10,
        display: 'block'
        }).animate({
        top: '-=' + distance + 'px',
        opacity: 1
        }, time, 'swing', function() {
          beingShown = false;
          shown = true;
        });
      }          
      return false;
    }).mouseout(function () {
      if (hideDelayTimer) clearTimeout(hideDelayTimer);
      hideDelayTimer = setTimeout(function () {
        hideDelayTimer = null;
        info.animate({
          top: '-=' + distance + 'px',
          opacity: 0
        }, time, 'swing', function () {
          shown = false;
          info.css('display', 'none');
        });
      }, hideDelay);
      return false;
    });
  }); 
});

bubble.css

/* Booble */
.bubbleInfo {
    position: relative;
    width: 500px;
}
.bubble {       
}
.popup {
    position: absolute;
    display: none;
    z-index: 50;
    border-collapse: collapse;
    font-size: .8em;
}
.popup td.corner {
    height: 13px;
    width: 15px;
}
.popup td#topleft { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-1.png); 
} 
.popup td.top { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-2.png); 
}
.popup td#topright { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-3.png); 
}
.popup td.left { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-4.png); 
}
.popup td.right { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-5.png); 
}
.popup td#bottomleft { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-6.png); 
}
.popup td.bottom { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-7.png); 
    text-align: center;
}
.popup td.bottom img { 
    display: block; 
    margin: 0 auto; 
}
.popup td#bottomright { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-8.png); 
}

I'm trying to make a "bubble" that can popup when the onmouseover event is fired and will stay open as long as the mouse is over the item that threw the onmouseover event OR if the mouse is moved into the bubble. My bubble will need to have all manners of html and styling including hyperlinks, images, etc.

All those events fully managed by this plugin...

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jqBubblePopup

Although qTip (the accepted answer) is good, I started using it, and it lacked some features I needed.

I then stumbled upon PoshyTip - it is very flexible, and really easy to use. (And I could do what I needed)