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Orbital Tooltip

Orbital Tooltip - jQuery tooltip with more ease of use for developers The Orbital Tooltip came about because we wanted to see a more flexible tooltip that allowed for a larger range of flexibility with positioning of a tooltip. With the Orbital Tooltip you can choose to position the tooltip on any object in a 360 degrees around it. With multiple options for spacing & offset as well as styling, Orbital Tooltip stands head and shoulders above other jQuery tooltips.

See the full demo posted in our creations area.

Download version:
alpha 0.1 - js

Complete Demo
Download: zip

The full project can also be found on the jQuery website in the plugins directory under Orbital Tooltip.

Please feel free to submit suggestions for changes to this plugin!

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This entry was posted on Monday, December 1st, 2008 at 9:30 am and is filed under Development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

18 Responses to “Orbital Tooltip”

  1. 25 Useful Scripts for Tooltips | Vandelay Design Blog says:
    December 2, 2009 at 6:48 am

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  2. 35 Useful Scripts for Tooltips | Red Button Reviews says:
    December 2, 2009 at 7:50 am

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  3. 35 Useful Scripts for Tooltips | JKookServ Hosting Blog says:
    December 2, 2009 at 4:46 pm

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  4. 35 Useful Scripts for Tooltips | OnColorz Technology News - New Technology, Internet News, Software, Telecom, Computer Science says:
    December 3, 2009 at 12:38 am

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  6. Alex says:
    January 8, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    Very Good Tooltip!

  12. Jason says:
    February 28, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    Doesn’t work in some cases with IE8. The issue appears to be IE8 returns NaN when padding (or border?) css values doesn’t exist, such as when the element inline vs. block.

    A *kludge*:

    Replace line 127 from:
    return vertical_padding;
    to:
    return vertical_padding || 0;

    Similarly, replace line 136:
    return horizontal_padding;
    to:
    return horizontal_padding || 0;

    Hope this helps someone out there!

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