11 jQuery Tooltip Plugins

If your looking for a way to give your users a more in depth description of an item on your site, but don’t want to talk at great length in the article, ToolTips are a fantastic solution.

They work by simply hovering over a word or piece of text, when hovered over a small bubble will appear which you can fill with more information, or a more detailed description.

You can achieve tooltips using multiple languages, in this piece we are focusing on the jQuery tooltips available.

1. Coda Popup Bubbles

2. jGrowl

3. jTip

4. Pop!

5. qTip

6. vTip

7. ToolTip

8. Tipsy

9. EZPZ Tooltip

10. jQuery Ajax Tooltip

11. Nice Tooltips

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