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Posted by Joe Hirst
Joe Hirst
Courses Plus Student 6,489 Points

Tooltips with CSS

Was playing around with the idea of tooltips for social icons on my personal site, but I wanted to use CSS and see if I could “hack” my way into doing this properly.

Here’s what I came up with: http://jsfiddle.net/2PQyx/4/

I’m missing some core CSS from another external stylesheet, but you can get the principle of it... You can see it working on my site: http://joe-hirst.com

What the CSS does:

 .tooltip{
    display: inline;
    position: relative;
}

/* On hover */

.tooltip:hover:after{
    background: #333;
    background: rgba(0,0,0,.8);
    border-radius: 5px;
    top: 10px;
    color: #fff;
    content: attr(title); /* Pulls title to display in background */
    left: 20%;
    padding: 5px 15px;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 98; /* Sets position directly under my social icons */
    width: 125px;
}

.tooltip:hover:before{
    border: solid;
    border-color: #333 transparent;
    opacity:1.0;  
    border-width: 0px 6px 6px 6px;
    bottom: 5px;
    content: "";
    left: 50%;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 99;
}

/* Firefox tooltip gap correction */

<!--[if Gecko ]>
.tooltop:hover:after{
    top: 8px;
}

.tooltip:hover:before{
    bottom: 4px; /* Fixes white space issue Firefox */
}
<![endif]-->