jQueryUI tooltip Widget to show tooltip on Click

Question

How the new jQueryUI's tooltip widget can be modified to open the tooltip on click event on certain element's on document, while the others are still showing their tootip on mouseover event. In click-open case the tooltip should be closed by clicking somewhere else on the document.

Is this possible at all?

Answer 1

This version ensures the tooltip stays visible long enough for user to move mouse over tooltip and stays visible until mouseout. Handy for allowing the user to select some text from tooltip.

$(document).on("click", ".tooltip", function() {
    $(this).tooltip(
        { 
            items: ".tooltip", 
            content: function(){
                return $(this).data('description');
            }, 
            close: function( event, ui ) {
                var me = this;
                ui.tooltip.hover(
                    function () {
                        $(this).stop(true).fadeTo(400, 1); 
                    },
                    function () {
                        $(this).fadeOut("400", function(){
                            $(this).remove();
                        });
                    }
                );
                ui.tooltip.on("remove", function(){
                    $(me).tooltip("destroy");
                });
          },
        }
    );
    $(this).tooltip("open");
});

HTML

<a href="#" class="tooltip" data-description="That&apos;s what this widget is">Test</a>

Sample: http://jsfiddle.net/A44EB/123/

Answer 2

This answer is based on working with different classes. When the click event takes place on an element with class 'trigger' the class is changed to 'trigger on' and the mouseenter event is triggered in order to pass it on to jquery ui.

The Mouseout is cancelled in this example to make everything based on click events.

HTML

<p>
<input id="input_box1" />
<button id="trigger1" class="trigger" data-tooltip-id="1"  title="bla bla 1">
?</button>
</p>
<p>
<input id="input_box2" />
<button id="trigger2" class="trigger" data-tooltip-id="2"  title="bla bla 2">
?</button>
</p>

jQuery

$(document).ready(function(){ 
$(function () {
//show
$(document).on('click', '.trigger', function () {
    $(this).addClass("on");
    $(this).tooltip({
        items: '.trigger.on',
        position: {
            my: "left+15 center",
            at: "right center",
            collision: "flip"
        }
    });
    $(this).trigger('mouseenter');
});
//hide
$(document).on('click', '.trigger.on', function () {
    $(this).tooltip('close');
    $(this).removeClass("on")
});
//prevent mouseout and other related events from firing their handlers
$(".trigger").on('mouseout', function (e) {
    e.stopImmediatePropagation();
});
})
})

http://jsfiddle.net/AK7pv/111/

Answer 3

Using jqueryui:

HTML:

<div id="tt" >Test</div>

JS:

$('#tt').on({
  "click": function() {
    $(this).tooltip({ items: "#tt", content: "Displaying on click"});
    $(this).tooltip("open");
  },
  "mouseout": function() {      
     $(this).tooltip("disable");   
  }
});

You can check it using http://jsfiddle.net/adamovic/A44EB/

Thanks Piradian for helping improve the code.

Answer 4

This code creates a tooltip that stays open until you click outside the tooltip. It works even after you dismiss the tooltip. It's an elaboration of Mladen Adamovic's answer.

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/c6wa4un8/57/

Code:

var id = "#tt";
var $elem = $(id);

$elem.on("mouseenter", function (e) {
    e.stopImmediatePropagation();
});

$elem.tooltip({ items: id, content: "Displaying on click"});

$elem.on("click", function (e) {
    $elem.tooltip("open");
});


$elem.on("mouseleave", function (e) {
    e.stopImmediatePropagation();
});


$(document).mouseup(function (e) {
    var container = $(".ui-tooltip");
    if (! container.is(e.target) && 
        container.has(e.target).length === 0)
    {
        $elem.tooltip("close");
    }
});

Answer 5

I have been playing with this issue today, I figured I would share my results...

Using the example from jQueryUI tooltip, custom styling and custom content

I wanted to have a hybrid of these two. I wanted to be able to have a popover and not a tooltip, and the content needed to be custom HTML. So no hover state, but instead a click state.

My JS is like this:

       $(function() {
        $( document ).tooltip({
            items: "input",
            content: function() {
                return $('.myPopover').html();
            },
            position: {
                my: "center bottom-20",
                at: "center top",
                using: function( position, feedback ) {
                    $( this ).css( position );
                    $( "<div>" )
                            .addClass( "arrow" )
                            .addClass( feedback.vertical )
                            .addClass( feedback.horizontal )
                            .appendTo( this );
                }
            }
        });

        $('.fireTip').click(function () {
            if(!$(this).hasClass('open')) {
                $('#age').trigger('mouseover');
                $(this).addClass('open');
            } else {
                $('#age').trigger('mouseout');
                $(this).removeClass('open');
            }

        })

    });

The first part is more or less a direct copy of the code example from UI site with the addition of items and content in the tooltip block.

My HTML:

   <p> 
       <input class='hidden' id="age"  /> 
       <a href=# class="fireTip">Click me ya bastard</a>
   </p>

  <div class="myPopover hidden">
       <h3>Hi Sten this is the div</h3>
  </div>

Bacially we trick the hover state when we click the anchor tag (fireTip class), the input tag that holds the tooltip has a mouseover state invoked, thus firing the tooltip and keeping it up as long as we wish... The CSS is on the fiddle...

Anyways, here is a fiddle to see the interaction a bit better: http://jsfiddle.net/AK7pv/