[pmwiki-users] tooltip

JB jbit at ev1.net
Sat Aug 5 08:28:01 CDT 2006


> If you install John Rankin's
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MarkupExtensions recipe, you'll
> have a new, inline {:term:term definition} markup. With this, the
> portion between the opening "{:" and the second ":" will appear
> on-screen with a fine, dotted underscore; when the reader's mouse
> hovers over that screen-text, the portion after the second ":" pops up
> like a "tool-tip".
> 
> You can see how it works all over the page
> http://intranet.affinity.co.nz/pmwiki2/index.php/Main/MarkupQuickReference,
> where John uses it to illustrate many of the other features added by
> the MarkupExtensions recipe.


I do not think this will work because the tooltip would have
to be muli-line.  For instance, moving over this:

   (:div class=chord chord='F#maj7' :)F#maj7(:divend:)


to display something like this in s tooltip:

    F#maj7
    ******2
    ||||||
    |*||||






Other suggestions?





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