Positioning Tooltips Above Triggers
Different ways to position tooltips.
HTML
<h1 style="text-align:center;">Positioning Tooltips Above Triggers...and Keyboard Accessible</h1>
<h2>Link with Title Attribute Tooltip Positioned Above Trigger</h2>
<a href="#" title="Tooltip Text">This is a link</a>
<h2>Button with Title Attribute Tooltip Positioned Above Trigger</h2>
<button title="Submit Your Answer">Submit</button>
<h2>Link with Title Attribute using Tooltip Class</h2>
<a title="some advisory info" href="#" class="tooltip">Link with Tooltip Class</a>
<h2>Link with Custom Tooltip. no alt</h2>
<a href="#" class="tooltip2">Llink Text with custom span tooltip<span class="tooltiptext">Custom tooltip</span></a>
<br />
<h2>
Image with Custom Tooltip
</h2>
<div class="tooltip2" tabindex="0"><img style="height:50px; width:50px;" ...
CSS
h1, h2, a {
font-family: arial;
}
/*CSS to position tooltip of title attribute above trigger fpr link and button*/
a[title]:hover:after, button[title]:hover:after, a[title]:focus:after, button[title]:focus:after {
content: attr(title);
position: relative;
top: -25px;
left: -60px;
padding: 5px, 15px;
background: black;
color: white;
border-radius: 6px;
}
/*Another way to do this by creating a tooltip class*/
.tooltip:hover:after, .tooltip:focus:after{
background: #333;
background: rgba(0,0,0,.8);
border-radius: 5px;
bottom: 26px;
color: #fff;
content: attr(title);
left: 20%;
padding: 5px 15px;
position: relative;
top: -25;
left: -50;
z-index: 98;
width: 220px;
}
/*Custom Tooltip, no alt attribute*/
.tooltip2 {
position: absolute;
}
.tooltip2 .tooltiptext {
visibility: hidden;
width: 120px;
background-color: black;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
border-radius: 6px;
padding: 5px 5px;
/* Position the tooltip */
position: relative;
top: -35px;
left: -50px;
}
.tooltip2:hover .tooltiptext, .tooltip2:focus .tooltiptext {
visibility: visible;
}