I currently set the title attribute of some HTML if I want to provide more information:
<p>An <span class="more_info" title="also called an underscore">underline</span> character is used here</p>
Then in CSS:
.more_info {
border-bottom: 1px dotted;
}
Works very nice, visual indicator to move the mouse over and then a little popup with more information. But on mobile browsers, I don't get that tooltip. title attributes don't seem to have an effect. What's the proper way to give more information on a piece of text in a mobile browser? Same as above but use Javascript to listen for a click and then display a tooltip-looking dialog? Is there any native mechanism?
You can fake the title tooltip behavior with Javascript. When you click/tab on an element with a title attribute, a child element with the title text will be appended. Click again and it gets removed.
Javascript (done with jQuery):
$("span[title]").click(function () {
var $title = $(this).find(".title");
if (!$title.length) {
$(this).append('<span class="title">' + $(this).attr("title") + '</span>');
} else {
$title.remove();
}
});
CSS:
.more_info {
border-bottom: 1px dotted;
position: relative;
}
.more_info .title {
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
background: silver;
padding: 4px;
left: 0;
white-space: nowrap;
}