Multi-color for Tool Tips–”CSS3”

In this tutorial we are going learn how to make multi color tool tips for the text.

Download the Multi Color for Tool Tips Source Code

HTML

<a href="#" class="tooltip">
  your text
  <span>Your tooltip description</span>
</a>

Java Script

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  $(function() {
    if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version.substr(0,1)<7)
    {
      $('.tooltip').mouseover(function(){
            $(this).children('span').show();
          }).mouseout(function(){
            $(this).children('span').hide();
          })
    }
  });
</script>

CSS

.tooltip
{
  position: relative;
  background: #eaeaea;
  cursor: help;
  display: inline-block;
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #222;
  outline: none;
}

.tooltip span
{
  visibility: hidden;
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 30px;
  left: 50%;
  z-index: 999;
  width: 230px;
  margin-left: -127px;
  padding: 10px;
  border: 2px solid #ccc;
  opacity: .9;
  background-color: #ddd;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,.5), rgba(255,255,255,0));
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,.5), rgba(255,255,255,0));
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,.5), rgba(255,255,255,0));
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,.5), rgba(255,255,255,0));
  background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,.5), rgba(255,255,255,0));
  -moz-border-radius: 4px;
  border-radius: 4px;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.4), 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5) inset;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.4), 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5) inset;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.4), 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5) inset;
  text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.4);
}

.tooltip:hover
{
  border: 0; /* IE6 fix */
}

.tooltip:hover span
{
  visibility: visible;
}

.tooltip span:before,
.tooltip span:after
{
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 1000;
  bottom: -7px;
  left: 50%;
  margin-left: -8px;
  border-top: 8px solid #ddd;
  border-left: 8px solid transparent;
  border-right: 8px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 0;
}

.tooltip span:before
{
  border-top-color: #ccc;
  bottom: -8px;
}

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