There are so many solution that offer out there for creating tool tip based on jQuery, even in the jQuery UI milestone the tool tip has been included in the project here is the jquery ui tooltip milestone, but if you need now sure you have to use the 3rd plugins or create by yourself, in this post I try to collect all that I can found including the link to the step by step tutorial.
Ready To Use Plugins
This section is for you who want to make it done in easier and faster way, most of this plugins not explain how it inside the plugins, of course you don’t want to know right? this is why you using the plugin, just to know how to use and modify it.
1. jQuery Tools Tooltip
2. qTip jQuery Plugin
qTip is an advanced tooltip plugin for the ever popular jQuery JavaScript framework. Built from the ground up to be user friendly, yet feature rich, qTip provides you with tonnes of features like rounded corners and speech bubble tips, and it’s completely free under the MIT license.
3. jTip – a jQuery Tool Tip
4. jQuery Plugin Tooltip
5. TipTip jQuery Plugin
TipTip is a custom tooltip that behaved just like the browser tooltip, and that is exactly what TipTip does. TipTip detects the edges of the browser window and will make sure the tooltip stays within the current window size.
6. aToolTip
7. mb Tooltip
8. vTip
9. Tipsy
Tipsy is a jQuery plugin for creating a Facebook-like tooltips effect based on an anchor tag’s title attribute.
10. Simpletip
Simpletip is a plugin for the popular jQuery JavaScript library. It allows you to create tooltips with ease on any element on the page using the power of jQuery’s selectors and event management. The tooltips can be static, dynamic, or even loaded through Ajax with a variety of different visual effects.
Other Available Plugins
jGrowl, htmltooltip, bQuery, Beauty Tips, BetterTip, jqTooltip, EZPZ Tooltip, clueTip, pop!, Hovertips, Simple Tooltip, Simple jQuery Tooltip, Just The Tip, Thumbnail Popup Plugin, jQuery Tiper, Easiest Tooltip, jQuery Tooltip
Tutorials
This section for who want know the detail how the tooltip work, these tutorial provide some great step by step instruction
1. Simple Tooltip by Soh Tanaka
2. Colortip by Tutorialzine
3. Better Tooltip by Jon Cazier (Nettuts)
4. jQuery Horizontal Tooltips Menu by Queness
5. Digg Style Post Sharing Tool by Queness
6. Coda Popup Bubbles by jQuery For Designer
7. Create a Simple CSS + Javascript Tooltip with jQuery by Queness
8. jQuery Tooltips by David Walsh
9. Poshy Tip by Vadikom
10. Style My Tooltips jQuery Plugin by Mahilu
http://manos.malihu.gr/style-my-tooltips-jquery-plugin
Other Available Tutorials
Smart Tooltips, Smart Tooltips Part 2, jQuery Ajax Tooltip, Creating A Simple Tooltip Using jQuery and CSS, jQuery Tooltips, Simple Tooltip jQuery Plugin, jQuery Custom Tooltip, Experimental jQuery Tooltip, Rollovers Tooltips jQuery, Adding jQuery Tooltips, How to Create Simple jQuery Tooltip