Make box not appear when mouse no longer over element - Javascript Tooltips, Popups, Captions

jpijper · #1 03-20-2006, 01:01 PM

My compliments for a very nice piece of work Olly!

I am using a fade-in time of 2 seconds for most of the elements (text boxes, select boxes, buttons, tables ...) on a page I am working on. This enables users to see help on anything they need, while more experienced users never need to see the tooltips, which would otherwise soon become a nuissance. However, if I move the mouse across an element with a 2-second-delay tooltip and let it come to rest somewhere else on the page (a blank area), the tooltip still dutifully and unexpectedly appears after 2 seconds. Is it possible to change this behaviour such that a delayed tooltip will appear only if the mouse is still over the element that triggered it when the delay is over?

Once again, I am impressed by BoxOver. Before I found it, I tried several others, but BoxOver offers everything I want and is still very compact and fast.

Jan Roelof

antman · #2 05-01-2006, 10:14 PM

This same problem has been described here, just to be complete:

http://boxover.swazz.org/forum/delay-*bug*-t298-1.html

olly · #3 05-02-2006, 11:00 PM

I'll look into this as soon as I have a few moments to spare...

antman · #4 05-03-2006, 06:35 AM

Thanks Olly, really looking forward to having this working. It's the only thing stopping me from using it in production. Thanks in advance for any time you can spare on this.