Tooltip title text on tabs

[jarrod]

Just a suggestion, may be good to allow the tooltip text to be set to something different from the tab's text?

[jack.slocum]

YAHOO.ext.TabPanelItem.prototype.setTooltip = function(text){
this.titleEl.dom.title = text;
};

Note, it you call setText you will have to reset the tooltip.

[jarrod]

Btw, is there a quick method to retrieve the tabpanelitem of a contentpanel?

Meanwhile, noticed that maxTabWidth is not used? Perhaps if the tab text length can be truncated automatically by maxTabWidth (with ... ellipses?) then the tooltip can remain as the original long text string.

[jack.slocum]

Perhaps if the tab text length can be truncated automatically by maxTabWidth (with ... ellipses?)

It is in browsers with support text-overflow (IE and Safari). Doing it with code is too resource intensive with more than 5 or 6 tabs (I tried).

[jarrod]

Yeap, agreed - will let the browser do it if it supports it then.

Meanwhile, just to confirm... RC1 doesn't seem to use the maxTabWidth value?

[jack.slocum]

Nope. It was added for tab scrolling which ended up not happening. I left it in there because it could be used in the future.