How to add a twitter bootstrap tooltip to an icon

Question

I would add a right-tooltip from twitter bootstrap to an icon element.

The code is this:

<h3>Sensors Permissions <i class="icon-info-sign"></i></h3> 

I would that, when the cursor is over the icon, is shown a right tooltip with some informations...

How can I do? It's not enough include the tooltip.js librery and put a element in the icon code? I'm confused.

Thank you.

Answer 1

I've recently used it like this:

 <i class="icon-ok-sign" rel="tooltip" title="Key active" id="blah"></i> 

Which produces:

You set the positioning of the tooltip and other features(delays etc) by declaring it using js:

$(document).ready(function(){     $("[rel=tooltip]").tooltip({ placement: 'right'}); }); 

As mentioned in comments, you can find other attributes/options here.

Answer 2

You might be forgetting to initialize your tooltips with .tooltip().

The .tooltip() function must be called on every element that you want to have a tooltip listener. This is for performance purposes. You can initialize a bunch at once by calling the function on a parent, like so: $('.tooltip-group').tooltip()

View the initialize function on one element on JSFiddle.

Javascript

$(document).ready(function() {   $('#example').tooltip(); }); 

Markup

<h3>   Sensors Permissions   <i class="icon-info-sign" data-toggle="tooltip" title="first tooltip" id='example'></i> </h3>