Need help: "Dictionary" mouse-over tooltip

[lora_elin]

Hello fellow joomla users 

I am trying to get a mouse-over hover tooltip to work for my site www.okunam.com to give short explanations on specific words without having to link to a separate page. The site is basically a simplified version of a text book for immigrants, so I don't want to just link to explanations on another page and I was looking for something nicer (faster to appear) than the alt attribute.

I am comfortable with html and css but all I know about javascript is you put it in the head of the html document..

My deadline is Friday so I've been searching franticly for some other solution than just an alt= attribute. I have spent probably close to 40 hours going from page to page and my problem is lack of documentation for a non-javascript programmer like me!

I am using wysiwygPro, I love the way they handle images.. so although JCE offers tooltips, I believe they are only for images(?) ..anyway, I've checked out all the available plugins of course ...componentslab.com/ doesn't offer any documentation for their Tips mambot, Information bar display module doesn't allow for just a simple tooltip text.. nor does jqtipsJP ..both want me to link to a whole other webpage via article ID.. bot_mostitlenew has no demo and although I can mostly understand Italian I didn't find any documentation *sigh*

Overlib didn't work.. so far all I can get to work is css hover tooltip which would be GREAT, if the insides of the tooltip wouldn't hover at the top left corner of my site.. hahaha, I really will just go with that if I can't get any other solution to work.

I know you probably have much better things to do with your time than to help me solve this tooltip problem, but any effort will be greatly appreciated. It's now 3 am so I'll check back here tomorrow, thanks in advance to anyone with spare time on their hands!

[matthewhayashida]

See: http://extensions.joomla.org/index.php? ... &Itemid=35

[lora_elin]

Please atleast read my post before you give me a reply.. I did not spend 40 hours searching for a solution and not check the extension part of the official joomla site. 

[matthewhayashida]

Have you tried: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... Itemid,35/
Here is a demo: http://www.joomlaprodigy.com/content/view/40/63/
There is no reason this should not work.

[lora_elin]

This mambot needs a whole other content item to link to, notice it asks for a article ID for a different content item, I don't want to create a seperate content item for every single tooltip information.

[seadap]

Please atleast read my post before you give me a reply.. I did not spend 40 hours searching for a solution and not check the extension part of the official joomla site. 

lore_elin, there is no reason to be rude.  Matt is trying to help you.  Please be aware that we are all volunteers here and are working to help the community.  "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."

[lora_elin]

Well yes I'm sorry that was kind of rude. However I also think it's rude to reply without bothering to read the problem, right?

[matthewhayashida]

Sorry. I did read you question. There was no reference to the extensions directory in your post.

You also edited your post with more details after I posted. Therefore I didn't get all the info.

[lora_elin]

No, I only made them bold.

[ianmac]

I think you want: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... Itemid,35/

Right?

Ian

[zenzazional]

I don't think you guys have understand the question ....

Is there any plugin that allows to put a comment on a mouse over a word of a article?

example:
something {plugin}simple, very simple{/plugin}

that when you put your mouse-over that word "simple" a tooltip box would appear with "very simple".
As tooltip box i'm refering to those simple squared yellow boxes, but it could better still the balloon shaped that you see all over the admin area ...

[Rogue4ngel]

So it would appear you have exhausted your library research and not found anything to suit the need.

It sounds to me like you would need to use an API call that would allow you to load javascript into the header, and then add whatever information you need to set up in the css pages used by the template.

Unfortunately the documentation for doing this isn't in the documentation section (still needs to be addd). With a little research I found the function call, but I'm not sure where it would need to be added.