I don't have this entire thread in my inbox, but it looks like the patch I
posted in the other current cluetip thread may be of use here...
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:21 PM, David Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> whoops, I hijacked another thread.. but maybe it applies anyway... lol
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:20 PM, David Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I know, I'm using the "for" attribute too. The thing is, sometimes all
>> the valid attributes are already in use for their "proper" uses... the
>> title attribute is used by thickbox for its caption, and I don't want it set
>> there. (yeah, thickbox needs an option to ignore it)
>>
>> So it would be nice to have another option. :)
>>
>> I think it would be easy... add an option "autoid", and then around line
>> 249,
>>
>> } else if (opts.local){
>> if(opts.autoid) {
>> var $localContent = $('cluetip_' + this.attr('id') + ':first');
>> } else {
>> var $localContent = $(tipAttribute + ':first');
>> }
>>
>> Or something like that... untested right now... I'm completely guessing.
>> Maybe I can look at it tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ok. quick suggestion for now until I look more into this:
>>>
>>> you don't need to use the rel attribute at all. you can instead set the
>>> attribute option to any attribute you want. You could use the title
>>> attribute from the area for the clueTip title (default) or use the alt
>>> attribute for it; you can use the href attribute to fetch the contents from
>>> an element with a matching id.
>>>
>>> $('area').cluetip({
>>> attribute: 'href',
>>> titleAttribute: 'alt',
>>> local: true
>>> });
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --Karl
>>> ____________
>>> Karl Swedberg
>>> www.englishrules.com
>>> www.learningjquery.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 3, 2008, at 3:04 PM, C.Everson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:12:56 -0400, Karl Swedberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the delay in replying. I'll try to take a look at this
>>>>> tonight.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Karl!
>>>>
>>>> BTW, another issue that I ran into with the Image Maps is that REL
>>>> appears
>>>> to NOT be a valid attribute of the <AREA> tag. This was causing HTML
>>>> validation to croak<g>. I was able to reset ClueTip to use the "href"
>>>> to
>>>> pass the ID of a hidden content div down the page, but that seems a bit
>>>> of
>>>> a kludge...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thinking about that (and digging into your code some more) I found that
>>>> the
>>>> first parameter to ClueTip can be the tip.
>>>>
>>>> That made me wonder if (for Image Maps) it might be better to be able to
>>>> set splitTitle: true and then pass both the tip and title as the first
>>>> parameter (with the "|" or whatever as the split element.
>>>>
>>>> Of course that would not make the map 508 friendly (since there would be
>>>> no
>>>> Alt or Title over the AREA), but it might be a way to make things work
>>>> and
>>>> still pass validation.
>>>>
>>>> If that was an option, then I guess the only other consideration would
>>>> be
>>>> how to solve the REL issue (and still pass validation).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Another idea (if possible), might be to use splitTitle and get it to
>>>> pull
>>>> the tip title from the first part of the content pulled in for the
>>>> tip...
>>>>
>>>> Anyway - thanks again for your great work on this and I look forward to
>>>> seeing what you come up with.
>>>>
>>>> Chuck
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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