Tooltips: TipTip, qTip and jQueryUI

TipTip

TipTip is a simple, lightweight jQuery plugin for Tooltips. It uses straight HTML and CSS for styling - no extra images to download- which makes it a perfect solution for sites that only need a simple improvement on the browser default title display.

Hover on this link for a demo.

qTip

qTip has more features that TipTip, including dynamic content (eg: AJAX) which may make it compelling for some projects. The stable release seems to have some problems with jQuery 1.4, but there is some updated versions in the repository.

Hover on this link for a demo.

jQuery UI Tooltip

The jQuery Tooltip widget is currently under development, a preview can be downloaded from the GoogleCode repository. I would not consider this widget production ready at the time of writing, but I’m including it here as ‘one to watch’. Whenever possible I favour jQuery plugins which fall under the jQueryUI umbrella, simply because I have more faith in these plugins being developed and supported into the future.