Re: tooltip for options in a selectbox

Haven't tried this myself, but what about setting the title attribute
of the select in the option's onmouseover?

Ian

On 01/12/05, Maninder, Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how we could show tooltips for text in the options of a select box?
>
> I have a drop down and some of the option names are huge (will spoil the display) so I am showing them trimmed to x chars.
>
> But, I want that when the user hovers over it, he sees the complete text in the tooltip.
>
> Firefox lets us use title attribute in the options for a tooltip, but it doesn't work in IE.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Mandy.
>
> The following will work in Firefox (but not IE)
>
> <P>Which Web browser do you use most often?
> <select>
> <option title="blog">hop</option>
> <option title="strewn">hip</option>
> </select>
> </P>
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