Tool Tip Recipe

Purpose

Although the HTML Help Workshop provides a way to include tool tips (pop-up messages that appear when the user’s mouse pauses on the item), they’ve always appeared unnecessarily complicated, involving the insertion of an ActiveX control—and you still only get a plain text popup. The TITLE attribute (not covered elsewhere in this chapter) provides the same functionality much more easily.

Sample

let your cursor linger on this affected text to see the tooltip

Call within the element

<SPAN TITLE="toolTipText">affectedText</SPAN>

where