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HTML
<span id="tooltip1" class="tooltip">
<strong>Light-weight CSS Tooltip</strong><br />
This is the easy-to-use Tooltip driven purely by CSS.<br/>
And this is some additional text
<p> More additional text </p>
</span>
<a href="#" class="tooltip1" style="border: 1px solid red;">
Tooltip
</a>
CSS
body {
overflow:scroll margin:0px;
}
span {
z-index:10;
padding:14px 20px;
width:auto;
line-height:16px;
display:inline;
position:absolute;
top:50px;
color:#111;
border:1px solid #dca;
background:#fffAF0;
border-radius:4px;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 8px #CCC;
opacity:0.5;
overflow:auto;
}
a {
text-decoration:none;
position:absolute;
bottom:300px;
/* Change as per your wish it will still work*/
left:400px;
/* Change as per your wish it will still work*/
}
JavaScript
$(".tooltip").hide(); // On very first line of scripts.js file
$("a").hover(function () {
var elems = this;
var curClass = elems.className // current class clicked.
var windowHeight = $(window).height();
var windowWidth = $(window).width();
var left = elems.offsetLeft;
var top = elems.offsetTop;
var linkHeight = $("." + curClass).height();
var linkWidth = $("." + curClass).width();
var bottom = windowHeight - top - linkHeight;
var right = windowWidth - left - linkWidth;
var topbottom = (top < bottom) ? bottom : top;
var leftright = (left < right) ? right : left;
var tooltiph = $("#" + curClass).height();
var tooltipw = $("#" + curClass).width();
if (topbottom == bottom && leftright == right) //done
{
var yPos = top;
var xPos = left + linkWidth + 10;
$("#" + curClass).css("top", yPos + "px");
$("#" + curClass).css("left", xPos + "px");
} else if (topbottom == bottom && leftright == left) //done
{
var yPos = top;
var xPos = right + linkWidth + 10;
$("#" + curClass).css("top", yPos + "px");
$("#" + curClass).css("right", xPos + "px");
} else if (topbottom == top && leftright == right) //done
{
var xPos = left + linkWidth + 10;
var yPos = top - tooltiph - (linkHeight / 2);
$("#" + curClass).css("top", yPos + "px");
$("#" + curClass).css("left", xPos + "px");
} else if (topbottom == top && leftright == left) {
var yPos = top - tooltiph - (linkHeight / 2);
var xPos = left - tooltipw - linkWidth;
$("#" + curClass).css("top", yPos + "px");
$("#" + curClass).css("left", xPos + "px");
} else {}
$(".tooltip").fadeIn('fast');
},
function () {
$(".tooltip").fadeOut('fast');
});