It looks like you got an old version of the plugin. Try the latest release, it has built-in support for repositioning the tooltip at the viewport border: http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-tooltip/
Jörn On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:26 PM, CNN_news <nagit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a theme that shows a preview of the image that the mouse is > currently hovering over with a larger image using jquery tooltip. > > The problem is that it always places the preview on the right and if > the image is on the right side of the page the preview causes > horizontal scrolling, > > see for yourself: > > http://torontopersonalinjurylawyers.org > > Is it possible make the preview switch to the left side of the mouse > if the mouse if on the right side of the page (ie. past a certain > point in the x-axis), > > > Somebody posted this code as a solution but I have not been able to > implement it: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks a lot of the extremely useful script! > > To position the tooltip depending where you are, you need to rewrite > some of the code using the offset() property of jQUERY. > > var toolTipPosition = $(this).offset(); //Declare the Offset object > var offsetX = 0; > var offsetY = 0; > //Then in the hover property > $("#tooltip") > .css("top",( toolTipPosition.top - posiY) + "px")//Will set where the > link/thumbnail is horizontally > .css("left",( toolTipPosition.left + this.offsetWidth/2 + posiX) + > "px") /*Will be positioned to the middle of the link/thumbnail, you > can alway remove this.offsetWidth/2 to remove the middle placement > thing.*/ > //Remove the mouseover function and your set! > > .fadeIn("fast"); > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Thanks. >
