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Title Tooltips 2.0

Advanced website usability script that makes more or less fancy tooltips out of standard title attributes!

The tooltips now follow the mouse cursor, appear faster, don't cut off titles which are too long and splits them into lines. It additionally can add title tooltips to any image (out from "alt"-attributes) and hyperlink (out from "href"-attributes)!
Additionally, you can in principle put whatever you want (images, html, etc.) into the title attribute of your own pages or limit the scope of my script by altering the "getElements" function call (e.g. replacing '*' with 'img' to set the titles of images or with 'a' to set the titles of links).

Benefits of "Title Tooltips 2.0"

  • title-tooltips follow the mouse cursor
  • title-tooltips appear faster
  • title-tooltips can be further configured
  • tooltip content is not cut off but multiline instead
  • tooltip content is now sizable (via ctrl +/-)
  • image's "alt"-attributes are transferred to titles
  • links' "href"-attributes are transferred to titles if no title given

For additional configuration details see script homepage and the source code - thanks to Walter Zorn for his tooltip script!.

Recent Updates (newest on top):

  • 05/30/2008: hopefully fixed bugs that showed up with the last script update. Please check it out!
  • Fixed Firefox 3.0 RC compatibility issues!
  • Catched security error 1000 on some sites
  • Use alt attribute if no titles present on images! (can be disabled via ALTTITLES parameter)
  • Use link address if no titles present on link! (can be disabled via LINKTITLES parameter)
  • Now using standard AddEventListener()-function in order not to overwrite some page's onload handler!
  • Long titles are multi-line now (set line length via 'maxxTTLength' parameter)
  • When title tag is updated via DHTML, tooltip is updated too! (e.g. gmail)
  • Just extended script to all iframe's content documents!

For more information please write a comment!






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anonymous_user user
Posted Jun 15, 2008

Ok I found a problem: this script causes quite some problems with Google Reader.

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billythegates script's author
Posted May 30, 2008

Okay, I think the bugs you have mentioned seem to be fixed now. I must say that I'm still having problems to integrate greasmonkey functions into highly complex sites such as google mail which is built up of several (i)frames which load asynchronously. I will try to fix this at some time, but unfortunately I won't be able to do this soon :(

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billythegates script's author
Posted May 30, 2008

Alex, thank you very much for your bug report. I'll try to fix this ASAP! Stay in touch...

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alex. user
Posted May 29, 2008

Yeah using Firefox 3 on linux. I'm using the latest version of the script but still nothing.

On the console in firebug there seems to be an error showing up regarding this script. 

unsafeWindow.HTMLElement.prototype is undefined
on line 104

One final thing while running this script I am unable to use google reader, the page loads but the screen is blank.

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billythegates script's author
Posted May 29, 2008

It's just because of the two other scripts needed for this to work: the tooltip script and the titletooltip script. I can include these scripts here, but that would also lead to the big disadvantage that the script needs to be updated more often!
Btw. are you using Firefox 3.0? I made an update and maybe the compatibility issues just returned!

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alex. user
Posted May 28, 2008

This doesn't seem to be working for me.

I have the script installed :) and have allowed usability-online.com in noscript but I don't get the fancy tooltips.

BTW why does the script need to connect to usability-online.com anyway?

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