Feeling the jQuery love

I’ve started to use jQuery on the cur­rent project I’m work­ing on and I really love it so far. It’s a lot eas­ier to grasp than I expected and is very light­weight for such a pow­er­ful framework.

When the site is done I’ll post a link to it. I’ve used jQuery for tabbed forms, form data manip­u­la­tion and updat­ing of page text and more. There’s one thing I didn’t find out how to do with it or if even a plu­gin exists for it and it’s a spe­cific kind of tooltips imple­men­ta­tion. jQuery does have tooltip plu­g­ins but none I found can eas­ily take the text from ANY ele­ment in a page and show it in the tooltip when mou­s­ing over another element.

The con­tents of my tooltips was long and needed to be for­mat­ted so I placed it in hid­den divs with a class named “descrip­tions” and those divs are hid­den by the script so avail­able as linked ref­er­ences if JS is off. I’m really surpised I couldn’t find a sim­i­lar imple­men­ta­tion for jQuery. The tooltips script I used is the one from Walter Zorn. If any­one knows of one that works sim­i­larly (needs to load con­tent from any ID’d ele­ment on the page) then please share! The one thing I do not like about Zorn’s script is that it relies on the onmouseover and onmouse­out attrib­utes and I would like to keep the code cleaner.