How to create a tooltip

Neha · July 14th, 2008, 04:10 AM

i have to create a mouse over tooltip as when the user put a mouse over a particular task, a tooltip appears.
For it should i used a rectangle that shows a detials of the tooltip.
What records are shown in tooltip are in xml as:
<Newdata>
<detail>
<idShiftNo>68</idShiftNo>
<strNameJob>BO</strNameJob>
    <idTaskNo1>323</idTaskNo1>
    <TaskStart>2007-01-05T21:15:00+05:30</TaskStart>
    <TaskEnd>2007-01-05T21:55:00+05:30</TaskEnd>
    <TaskName>OS217</TaskName>
    #000000
    <backColorHTML>#C0C0C0</backColorHTML>
    <ToolTip>Task:OS217 STA: 20:30 PaxBkd: 1</ToolTip>
</detail>
</Newdata>

please help me.

samjudson · July 14th, 2008, 04:21 AM

I am assuming you mean a tooltip on a web page? You don't say.

If you know the HTML you want to produce then tell us and we can help you produce it using XSLT. If you don't know the HTML you want to produce then this isn't a XSLT problem is it.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Neha · July 14th, 2008, 06:21 AM

Thanx a lot!!! sir, through html m easily able to do this. :)