jQuery UI Tooltip with dynamic content

Question

I use jQuery UI Tooltip Widget and there is code:

  $(function() {$( document ).tooltip({  
    content: 'connecting',
    content:function(callback) {
            $.get('teacher.php?teacherid=' + link,{}, function(data) {
            callback(data);
        });
    },

  })});

On my page i have:

<div title="" onmouseover="{link=1}">Alex Brown</div>
<div title="" onmouseover="{link=2}">John Black</div>

But it doesn't work. How can i send variable to JS that Alex Brown is teacher with ID=1, and John Black is teacher with ID=2?

UPD: Well, it was fixed

  <script>
  $(function() {$( document ).tooltip({ 
    show: 0,
    hide: 0,
    items: 'teacher',
    content: 'connecting',
    content: function(callback) {
            var x=$(this).attr('id') 
            $.get('teacher.php?teacherid='+x,{}, function(data) {
            callback(data);
        });
    },

  })});
  </script>

And in HTML i now have:

<teacher id="1">Alex Brown</teacher>
<teacher id="2">John Black</teacher>
<teacher id="3">Homer Simpson</teacher>

Beware, avoid the attribute id that should be unique at document level — Ivan Buttinoni
– Ivan Buttinoni, Commented May 6, 2014 at 6:41

Ivan Buttinoni · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-06 06:35:13Z

8

First you tag your links with a class

<div class="teacher-link" data-teacher="1" title="1" onmouseover="{link=1}">Alex Brown</div>
<div class="teacher-link" data-teacher="2" title="2" onmouseover="{link=2}">John Black</div>

Then hook your tooltips on that class

$(function() {$( ".teacher-link" ).tooltip({  
    content: 'connecting',
    content:function(callback) {
            var link = $(this).attr("data-teacher"); // here retrieve the id of the teacher 
            $.get('teacher.php?teacherid=' + link,{}, function(data) {
            callback(data);
        });
    },

  })});

On non html5 page you can use another attribute like title:

   var link = $(this).attr("title"); // here retrieve the id of the teacher

answered May 6, 2014 at 6:35

Ivan Buttinoni

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Richard Smith Over a year ago

I don't see how this is supposed to work. You can't have two content properties in the anonymous object. I'm finding the content: 'Connecting' property is ignored in Firefox.

tpisto · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-06 06:31:40Z

6

I think it's best to use HTML5 custom attribute

<div class="teacher" data-id="1" title="">Alex Brown</div>
<div class="teacher" data-id="2" title="">John Black</div>

and script

$(function() {
    $( ".teacher" ).tooltip({
       content: function() { return $(this).attr('data-id'); },
    });
});

You can play with this at: http://jsfiddle.net/pT3ed/4/

Just replace "return $(this).attr('data-id');" with your loader using $(this).attr('data-id') as id.

answered May 6, 2014 at 6:31

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Manwal · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-09 11:05:58Z

4

You should got for this:

$('body').tooltip({
    selector: '[data-toggle=tooltip]'
});

answered Oct 9, 2015 at 11:05

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Yordan Georgiev · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-27 19:43:43Z

<!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
    <title> dynamic jquery ui tooltip </title>

  <link rel="stylesheet" 
  href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
  <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
  <script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.2/jquery-ui.js"></script>
  <style>
            #listing {
                margin-left: 50px ;
            }
            .ui-tooltip {
                background: #AAABBB ;
                -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 10px #aaa;
                box-shadow: 0 0 10px #aaa;
            }
            body .ui-tooltip {
                border-width: 4px;
            }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="listing">
<div class="item-heading" id="item-1" > link-1 </div>
</br>
</br>
<div class="item-heading" id="item-2"> link-2</div>
</div>
    <script>

    // courtesy of: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15014759/65706
    // and : http://stackoverflow.com/a/23487435/65706
    $(document).tooltip({
        items: ".item-heading"
        // set static content to the tooltip
        // , content: '<p> <a href="http://www.google.com"> go to google </a>'
        // or
        // set a dynamic content based on the selected element id
        , content: function() {
                //attribute title would do it as well for non html5
                //also any custom attribute name would do it for html5
                var el_id= $(this).attr('id');
                var id=el_id.split('-')[1];
                var d_link = "http://www.somesite.com/page.php?id=" + id ;
                d_link = "<p><a href=\"" + d_link + "\"> go to link " + 
                id + " </a></p>" ;
                return d_link ;
        }
        , open: function( event, ui ) {
                ui.tooltip.animate({ top: ui.tooltip.position().top + 4 }, "fast" );
            }
        , close: function( event, ui ) {
                ui.tooltip.hover(
                    function () {
                     $(this).stop(true).fadeTo(400, 1);
                        //.fadeIn("slow"); // doesn't work because of stop()
                    },
                    function () {
                        $(this).fadeOut("400", function(){ $(this).remove(); })
                    }
                );
        }
});
    </script>
</body>
</html>

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