Overlapping elements with tooltips
by TJ VanToll
HTML
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.9.0/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.9.0/themes/vader/jquery-ui.css">
<span title="Outer">
<div style="position: absolute; overflow: hidden; height: 50px; width: 10px; top: 150px;" title="Inner">
</div>
</span>
<p>If you hover over the white portion of the line and wait the native tooltip should show up.</p>
CSS
[title="Outer"] {
background-attachment: scroll;
background-color: #DDDDDD;
background-image: none;
background-position: 0 0;
background-repeat: repeat;
border-bottom: 0 solid #BBBBBB;
border-top: 0 solid #BBBBBB;
height: 500px;
width: 10px;
position: absolute;
overflow: hidden;
}
[title="Inner"] {
background-color: white;
}
body { padding: 20px; }
p { position: absolute; left: 10%; }
JavaScript
$('span').tooltip();
$('div').tooltip();