30 Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Catchy Designs
Tooltips on website are small things which can play a big role in website design. If a tooltip on your website is very well made and looks amazing then it can lift up visitors impression about your website. And that’s why here comes jQuery to help with its well made tooltips. And remember that all those small website design things make your website look better.
So this time I will show you my Top 30 of jQuery tooltip plugins. Enjoy!
1. The Tooltip
The Tooltip is a good looking tooltip that appears when you mouseover a tooltip handle. It’s not jQuery plugin, but CSS3 code, but it has cool animation and is very handy, view preview video on site to see how powerful it is!
Benefits:
- CSS3 fade in and fade out gives The Tooltip a smooth appearance (works in modern Webkit browsers, Firefox 4.0, Opera 11)
- Gracefully degrades in older browsers
- 25 awesome color schemes included
- Good documentation and examples (as seen in the video preview) are present
- You can use The Tooltip as a regular speech bubble too
- No images, no JavaScript, less load time
1.1. Dynamic tooltip
Very cool tooltip! It’s very well made because it consists of cool transition effects and it also has a transparency and a drop shadow effect.
2. Popup Bubble
Brilliant tooltip! It looks so simple but it has awesome transition effects. This tooltip could be very useful for clean and simple websites.
3. jQuery Horizontal Tooltips Menu Tutorials
Beautifully made tooltip! This tooltip never disappears but follows when you hover over other links. Such a simple looking tooltip but its animation is brilliant.
4. Coda Popup Bubble
Very nice tooltip with cool transition effect and it also has a drop shadow.
Fresh Tooltips
Precisely designed and coded Fresh Tooltips. Great for any kind of website, very practical. The top one is 100% transparent black, which looks very very cool. Also perfect for learning—I’ve made lots of cross-browser research before I’ve done these, you won’t find better tutorial with such an amazing design than personally going through my code.
5. Awesomeness
Cool tooltip with nice transition effect and cool transparent border around it.
6. TipTip
Beautifully made tooltip with fade in / out transition effects, transparency and drop shadow effect.
7. (mb)Tooltip
Beautifully made tooltip with nice transition for input fields.
8. vTip
Simple but well made tooltip with a fade in transition effect. It has a cool looking border around it and when this tooltip appears, it also follows your mouse.
9. jGrowl
Cool tooltip which appears when you click on the link and then it sticks on the right-top corner of your window, and disappears after some time or when you close it manually by clicking on the close button. It also has fade in / out transition effects.
Generic Popups
I know the main focus of this collection is for Tooltips but I just can’t let this gem pass without you knowing about it. It has tooltips too, and most of all you have the freedom to customize it at your own liking!
10. jQuery Ajax Tooltip
Interesting tooltip which can handle image and text together like a mini page. It has a drop shadow effect.
11. Digg-style post sharing tool with jQuery
Cool digg-style post sharing tool. This tooltip could be very useful for social networking website.
12. Input Floating Hint Box
Interesting tooltip with rounded corners for input fields. Tooltip fades in when you click on the input field and fades out when you click somewhere else.
13. Simpletip
Beautifully made tooltip with fade transitions. When you hover over a link, a tooltip fades in just above or below the link.
14. qTip
Very simple but good looking tooltip. This tooltip is available with rounded corners and also as a speech bubble tip.
15. Orbital Tooltip
Interesting tooltip plugin where you can set manually where your tooltip will show up.
16. Inline HTML Tooltip
Cool tooltip with nice transition effects.
17. tipsy
Interesting good looking tooltip which appears above, below, on the right or left side of the link.
18. Easiest jQuery Tooltip Ever
Simple tooltip but it could be useful to display an image when you hover over a link.
19. BsTip
Various simple tooltips with fade in and fade out transition effects and border around them.
19.1. Shiny Tooltips
Have you seen a tooltip that makes an item…shine? Blind your visitors with magnificence!
20. EZPZ Tooltip
Very simple tooltip with border around it, which follows your mouse.
21. BeautyTips
Nice balloon style tooltip with transparency effect. There are available various tooltip styles, even interesting tooltips with cool animation, so you can choose one that fits best for your needs.
22. Tooltip
Various tooltip plugins for your website. Here you can find a simple tooltip with a nice fade transition and also you can find a good looking bubble style tooltip.
23. clueTip
Simple tooltip which shows up when you hover over a link and stays until you close it.
24. Creating A Simple Tooltip Using jQuery and CSS
Few simple but different tooltips.
25. BetterTip
Tooltip which appears on the right side of the link.
26. jTip
This is simple but useful tooltip for login form.
27. jqTooltip
Simple tooltip with ajax loaded content. It has fade in and fade out transition effects.
28. Pop!
Simple tooltip which shows up when you click on the arrow button and disappears when you click somewhere else.
29. Create a Simple CSS + Javascript Tooltip with jQuery
Simple tooltip with rounded corners. It follows your mouse movements.
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Razor
Posted 4 days ago 65thanks!:)……awesome j query plugins :)
Rob
Posted 16 days ago 64Awesome tooltips, here is a creation of my own I created, very lightweight, using jquery: http://www.websanova.com/plugins/websanova/tooltip
Frank Mai
Posted 17 days ago 63nice list. but I would add http://animatedpng.info/ here too.
owl
Posted 22 days ago 62Great collection! Do you alsow know one, that can show a short video clip, when hovering?
Yuri
Posted 29 days ago 61Hey thanks for the collection. I was searching for the most simple tooltip and found this one that uses the “title” attributes so is the most simple I found because there’s no need to do nothing.
Here’s the link: http://code.google.com/p/littletip/
But your collection is nice and I will check this too for a more personalized situations…
Thanks
Navi
Posted 33 days ago 60Where the Code I can’t get the Proper Source Code..Plz Help
sunwatt
Posted 46 days ago 59These look great, will definitely take a look at some of those tutorials. Thanks for sharing these!
vince
Posted 66 days ago 58Thanks a lot 4 this cool collection of tooltips i have some used 4 my website. Its easy to include all the functions. Thanks and best regards
bobef
Posted 69 days ago 57Hi. Here is one more jQuery css-only tooltip implementation that you may find useful jquery.xtip.
Status Publicidad
Posted 80 days ago 56Thanks you for this awesome collection of plugins.
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Posted 82 days ago 55Nice work.. Jquery rocks. Thanks for sharing this.
Jobs in Design
Posted 89 days ago 54Thanks for putting this great collection of tooltips together Peteris, I’m spoilt for choice right now!