Hi all,
How shall I change the hovering interval of the tooltip (or prevent it to hide) which appears when you hold the mouse pointer over an object to which a title attribute is assigned?

As far as I know, tooltip display is completely browser / operating system controlled.  What most sites do instead is to use DHTML to mimic the behavior of a tooltip, allowing them to provide very rich tooltips containing structured data and images.  Doing this will also allow you to modify the hovering interval.  

This site has a simple example: http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm ... but I've never used their code personally so take the link for what it's worth :).

Jon Emerson
http://www.jonemerson.net/

Also, they don't go away if you keep your mouse pointer still. :)

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Would this work? (A bit primitive) - Use an onmouseover event that triggers possibly a blur() or focus() after an interval (obviously allow the user enough time to read the tooltip). Like this:

<a href = "http://www.somewhere.com" title = "This goes somewhere" onmouseover = "removeTitle(10000)">Somewhere</a>
<input type = "hidden" id = "hField">


<script language = "javascript">
function removeTitle(readTitle)
{
window.setTimeout(document.getElementById('hField' ).focus(), readTitle)
}
</script>

Don't know if it will work, just a thought. You could also trigger a tab with sendKeys in VBScript but I think the tooltip would reappear unless the tab took them out of the viewing area they are in. may be the same with focus(), but worth a shot.

HTH!
Joe

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Meow, be sure it WILL dispear with the mouse pointer still (at least in windows).
and Interupt, I guess the input field is irrelevant.

Just suppose you have tones of pages (and UI components used in those pages) in hand (and of course having this defect) and suddenly your employer comes and tells you the interval is too little to read the whole stuff and asks to do something about it...
I don't want to replace the simple 'title' attribute with any new DHTML technique in all this pages nor do I want to extened those encapsulated UI components.

what would u do?!

Does anyone know anything about manipulating this interval in windows at least(since it seems it's more related to the OS than the browser).

No, they won't. Not in IE, not in Opera and not in FF. Put your pointer on something with a tooltip, remove your hand and let the mouse lie there and you'll see. :)

I think you have to create your own tooltips if you want them to be more easy to read. It's easy enough with CSS, but since IE only accepts :hover on links you may want to look for a JavaScript solution instead.


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