[html-formfu] Adding balloon hints to fields

Thomas L. Shinnick tshinnic at io.com
Sat Sep 22 06:22:38 GMT 2007


Is this the best way to add a balloon hint popup to both field and 
label?  I'm using the examples/vertically-aligned.css for testing, 
and so the 'container' is a <span>.

     elements:
       - type: Text
         name: country_name
         label: Country Name
         size: 32
         container_attributes:
           title: Name of country (when not USA domestic)

I also tried
     elements:
       - type: Text
         name: country_name
         label: Country Name
         label_attributes:
           title: Name of country (when not USA domestic)
         size: 32
         attributes:
           title: Name of country (when not USA domestic)
which worked, but I kinda wanted the popup anywhere on the field 
line, and this only did the actual label text and the field input box.

I have only Firefox and IE7 at hand to test with.  Will adding a 
title="" to a <span> also work in other browsers?  Ah, works in Opera 
9.23.   And IE6!

Thoughts?

BTW: Is there anyplace that specifically points out magic like 
'container_attributes:' ?



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