Turn off tooltips?

Is it possible to add a style or some other way of turning off tooltips? I want to because they’re blocking the view of menu items.

Which tooltips are you talking about? Tooltips are usually generated by javascript.

If a link has a title, the browser will put up a tooltip. Remove the titles from the links.

Thanks, Susan!

You nailed it. I must have had a brain freeze.

I think you could also change the tooltip delay time so you’d still have the tooltips, but they wouldn’t block anything until a fairly long hover.

I don’t know where the delay time is set, but I’ll bet Susan does.

Bob

That is done by the browser, and I don’t think that can be changed. Google might know, though; they know lots more than I do

Opera user can (maybe) modify the browser’s behavior to some extent:
http://my.opera.com/Wandering%20electrons/blog/opera-tips-and-tricks-selectively-remove-tooltips-from-opera

I think the ones MODx is using are done with Mootools.

This is from the Mootools docs in the MODx install:

Class: Tips
Display a tip on any element with a title and/or href.

Arguments:
elements - a collection of elements to apply the tooltips to on mouseover.
options - an object. See options Below.

Options:
maxTitleChars - the maximum number of characters to display in the title of the tip. defaults to 30.
timeOut - the delay to wait to show the tip (how long the user must hover to have the tooltip appear). defaults to 100.

onShow - optionally you can alter the default onShow behaviour with this option (like displaying a fade in effect);
onHide - optionally you can alter the default onHide behaviour with this option (like displaying a fade out effect);

showDelay - the delay the onShow method is called. (defaults to 100 ms)
hideDelay - the delay the onHide method is called. (defaults to 100 ms)

className - the prefix for your tooltip classNames. defaults to ’tool’.
the whole tooltip will have as classname: tool-tip
the title will have as classname: tool-title
the text will have as classname: tool-text

offsets - the distance of your tooltip from the mouse. an Object with x/y properties.

fixed - if set to true, the toolTip will not follow the mouse.

It looks like you could maybe alter the delay with a js statement (tool.tool-tip.showDelay=5000), or, for sure, by editing showDelay in about line 5621 of the Mootols js file.

Sometimes PhpEd’s "Search in files" is even better than Google.

As an aside, the Windows Vista advanced search with "search in files" is not only slow, but completely worthless, as far as I can tell. It can’t find things I know are there -- even in files that are indexed.


Bob

Yes, MooTools does have a customized tooltip function. And indeed, with javascript you can prevent the tooltips from being displayed. But without javascript, there’s no way to stop the browser from displaying the anchor’s title element as a tooltip.

By the way, FF 3 fixes the 80-char limit to the title tooltip display. Not that that helps this situation, but it’s nice to know that when you do want them, they’ll actually work properly.