I have had so many problems of similar sort with select's that I finally gave up and now I just use a library to generate a select box that's got only DIV tags. That way I can have multi-line items, tooltips, fading, etc...
death to select input form tag :P especially I see google using similar technigues everywhere in their apps - yahoo as well. did I say 'death to select input form tag' ? On Mar 25, 10:45 am, alexanmtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you hover a tooltip in a select, it should disappear when you are > selecting a option. > In this case, the tooltip are putting the box of tip completely in > wrong place. And worse: when you are hovering the option the tooltip > keeps behind them, whats its strange user experience. > > I try to solve this problem with this code > $("select").click(function(){ > $.Tooltip.blocked ? $.Tooltip.blocked = false : > $.Tooltip.blocked = > true; > $("#tooltip:hidden").length ? $("#tooltip").show() : $ > ("#tooltip").hide(); > > }); > > $("select").blur(function(){ > $.Tooltip.blocked = false; > > }); > > It works in firefox, blocking the tooltip when you click in a select > and when you exit the tooltip back to act > > But didnt works in safari and IE. > > Anyone know a way to handler the tooltip properly with select when you > are choosing a option?