Summary

Phew! For such a small widget, we certainly have covered a lot of ground!

The Tooltip widget is an excellent way to communicate short pieces of information, such as an error or alert, to the user, you can even use it as a mini help system; let's review what was covered in this chapter.

We first looked at how, with just a little underlying HTML and a single line of jQuery-flavored JavaScript, we can implement the default tooltip widget. We then saw how easy it is to style the Tooltip widget, either using a predesigned ThemeRoller theme, or one of our own; so that its appearance, but not its behavior, is altered.

We then moved on, to look at the set of configurable options exposed by the tooltip's API, and how these can be used to control the options that the widget offers. Following the configurable options, we covered the handful of methods that we can use to programmatically make the tooltip perform different actions, such as enabling or disabling specific tooltips.

We briefly looked...