HTML-Tooltip position relative to mouse pointer
How to align the tooltip the natural style: right bottom of the mouse pointer?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Tooltip with Image</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<style type="text/css">
.tooltip {
text-decoration:none;
position:relative;
}
.tooltip span {
display:none;
}
.tooltip span img {
float:left;
}
.tooltip:hover span {
display:block;
position:absolute;
overflow:hidden;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<a class="tooltip" href="http://www.google.com/">
Google
<span>
<img alt="" src="http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo4w.png">
</span>
</a>
</body>
</html>
Answer
For default tooltip behavior simply add the title attribute. This can't contain images though.
<div title="regular tooltip">Hover me</div>
Before you clarified the question I did this up in pure JavaScript, hope you find it useful. The image will pop up and follow the mouse.
JavaScript
var tooltipSpan = document.getElementById('tooltip-span');
window.onmousemove = function (e) {
var x = e.clientX,
y = e.clientY;
tooltipSpan.style.top = (y + 20) + 'px';
tooltipSpan.style.left = (x + 20) + 'px';
};
CSS
.tooltip span {
display:none;
}
.tooltip:hover span {
display:block;
position:fixed;
overflow:hidden;
}
Extending for multiple elements
One solution for multiple elements is to update all tooltip span's and setting them under the cursor on mouse move.
var tooltips = document.querySelectorAll('.tooltip span');
window.onmousemove = function (e) {
var x = (e.clientX + 20) + 'px',
y = (e.clientY + 20) + 'px';
for (var i = 0; i < tooltips.length; i++) {
tooltips[i].style.top = y;
tooltips[i].style.left = x;
}
};