One thing though. In this version the tooltip text doesn’t parse HTML. If you want to parse html change this line in the tooltip.js file:

div.appendChild(document.createTextNode(this.text_));

to:

div.innerHTML = this.text_;
document.body.appendChild(div);

Now you can use HTML tags within the tooltip.

Your tooltip script is awesome. What impressed me the most (and which led me to use it) was it’s size: about 1.5kb.

Good job, keep the good work.
P.S.: nice layout of your blog, too.

Thanks for both v1 and v2 of the tooltips, I found them extremely useful and they saved me a lot of time. We are currently using your code in our ruby on rails google maps wrapper and its working great!

cheers
yawningman

you saved my site… works much better with that tooltip. Great, thanks,

Kamiel, Berlin
GREEN CHALLENGE DOT ORG

@Don Hosek - One way to get around this (though probably not the most efficient solution) is to add a line to the beginning of the Tooltip’s show() method that calls this.redraw(true);, which will recalculate the locations of the markers. Currently, I think redraw is only called when you re-zoom the map (or otherwise refresh the entire map).

I would like to show the tool tip for the markers in a google when i clicked the marker on map. Plz do reply

The question now becomes:

Is it possible to reduce the height of the tooltip box?

I only have 2 lines of text and the box is quite a bit bigger than necessary.

I can’t decipher the //DRAW TOOLTIP section in the source file as to how the logic determines the height of the box…

Help?

Thx,

James

I notice in your example you have a multi-line tooltip, but the source code seems more complicated than I need.

I simply want to break up a tooltip over 2 lines to keep within a small map window size (only 200px!).

How can this be done?

Thx,
James

Regards,
Jan Zon