Suggestion: Tooltips for grid cells

[jarrod]

Will be useful to have built-in grid cell tooltip option support, especially for cells with text which tend to exceed the column width.

[jarrod]

Disregard this post, just realised that the latest svn build passes the td element to the column cell renderer... tooltip setting is now easy. Thanks.

[amc]

I need to do exactly this. Please could you post a code fragment to explain how?

[amc]

Ideally I need the whole row's data in a tooltip.

[Belgabor]

The rows record is sent as the third parameter to the cell renderer (see the paging grid example) so you should be able to build the tooltip from that.

[jack.slocum]

The second param is a template parameter object. One of the predefined parameter is attr which can be used to add attributes to the cell content element:

function renderFoo(value, p, record){
     p.attr = 'title="some tooltip"';
     return value;
}

QuickTips:

function renderFoo(value, p, record){
     p.attr = 'ext:qtip="some tooltip"';
     return value;
}

QuickTips with title:

function renderFoo(value, p, record){
     p.attr = 'ext:qtip="some tooltip" ext:qtitle="Tooltip Title!"';
     return value;
}

[AlexJG]

Originally Posted by jack.slocum

QuickTips with title:

function renderFoo(value, p, record){
     p.attr = 'ext:qtip="some tooltip" ext:qtitle="Tooltip Title!"';
     return value;
}

Tried this Jack and it works great except the tooltip is only displayed if the mouse is placed after the data rendered in the cell

[tryanDLS]

What would there be to show if you haven't rendered the data in the cell, and it would seem haven't called grid.render yet?

[AlexJG]

Not sure what you mean but perhaps I didn't explain to well.

After the grid has been rendered the tooltip is only displayed when the mouse is after the text in the cell.

[jack.slocum]

Is your text wrapped in an element by a renderer?