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Overview
The tooltip component is used to pop up a tooltip for another component. You can specify various positions and effects for the tooltip.
Usage
<h:outputText id="text" ... /> ... <ace:tooltip for="text" ... > ... </ace:tooltip>
Component Attributes
 | TagLib Documentation This section covers attributes involved in the typical use-cases for this component. For reference, the complete taglib documentation for this component is available here. |
for: id of the component that the tooltip is for.
position and targetPosition are used to position the tooltip relative to the target component, e.g. "topLeft" corner of tooltip at "bottomRight" corner of target component.
showEvent, showDelay, showEffect, showEffectLength specify the event and effect to show the tooltip.
The corresponding attributes for hiding the tooltip are hideEvent, hideDelay, hideEffect, hideEffectLength
<ace:ajax/> support
The following event is supported by the nested <ace:ajax/> tag:
display (default)
JavaScript APIs / Client Behaviours
The client side tooltip object is exposed through the global variable name specified in the widgetVar attribute, but currently there is no API useful to the user.