tooltipster-follower
Follower is a Tooltipster plugin to make tooltips follow the cursor. MIT license.
Installation
Include the javascript plugin file in your page AFTER Tooltipster's file. Also include Follower's CSS file.
<html>
<head>
...
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tooltipster/dist/css/tooltipster.bundle.min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tooltipster-follower/css/tooltipster-follower.min.css" />
...
<script type="text/javascript" src="tooltipster/dist/js/tooltipster.bundle.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="tooltipster-follower/js/tooltipster-follower.min.js"></script>
</head>
</html>
If you have no tooltips using sideTip
in your page, you may use Tooltipster's core files instead of the bundle ones.
Usage
Declare the follower
plugin in the options of the tooltips you want to follow the cursor, instead of sideTip
:
$('.tooltip').tooltipster({
plugins: ['follower']
});
That's it! You should see your tooltip follow the mouse, at the bottom-right of the cursor.
Themes
Follower has the same default style and themes as Tooltipster's sideTip. They are all included in tooltipster-follower.min.css
, so you don't need to include any other files.
To create your own style, create a sub-theme as explained in Tooltipster's documentation. The only difference is that you replace .tooltipster-sidetip
by .tooltipster-follower
in your rules.
Options
minWidth
The minimum width of the tooltip. Default: 0
maxWidth
The maximum width of the tooltip. Default: null
offset
The position of the anchor in the coordinate system, in the form [x,y]
(see the illustration below). Default: [15,-15]
anchor
The anchor is the point of the tooltip which ties it to the coordinate system (see the illustration below). There are eight possible values: top-left
, top-center
, top-right
, left-center
, left-right
, bottom-left
, bottom-center
, bottom-right
. Default: top-left
All of Tooltipster's options, methods and events remain available. Only sideTip's features will be unavailable on tooltips that use Follower instead (read this note).
Examples
$('.tooltip').tooltipster({
anchor: 'bottom-left',
minWidth: 200,
maxWidth: 300,
offset: [20, 20],
plugins: ['follower'],
theme: 'tooltipster-noir'
});
Events
follow
events are fired when the position of the tooltip is set. It has event
, helper
and position
properties, as well as an edit
property which is a function that you may use to edit the coordinates of the tooltip.
position
events are fired when Tooltipster asks Follower to re-evaluate the position of the tooltip, just like sideTip. Although we kept sideTip's original name for this event, it can be misleading as it is not fired every time the tooltip actually moves (use the follow
events for that). The event has event
, helper
and position
properties, and an edit
property which is a function you can use to edit the proposed size of the tooltip.