Chapter 9. User Interface Plugins: Tooltip Plugins

We might want to start off by saying tooltips are very popular in today's web design. This is probably due to the value that the tooltips add to the overall look of a website and the sensible addition to a nice user experience that they will certainly contribute.

Also, as we have seen for many other plugins, which are not that difficult to create — provided we know exactly what to do and how to do it — there shouldn't be much of an issue with developing the tooltip plugin. It may actually take some time to understand how to position elements based on the mouse cursor position itself and how to move deftly with an increasing number of functions doing different things. However, we're now on the path to becoming experts, and fearless too!

The topics we're going to discuss include: