Hi Charlie,
You don’t really need a plugin for that. If what you’re looking for is not very fancy-shmancy, you can do it with the ‘title’ html tag.
Here’s the code you need to use (taking your first link “God is…” as an example):
<a href="http://www.thefundamentalist.info/?p=198" Title="A post/blog about the essence of God">God is...</a>
And here’s a working version of the example:
God is…
If you are looking for something “prettier,” the only tool I know is dramatically more complicated to use, and it requires a decent to intermediate understanding of JQuery (JavaScript): it is called Jtip and it was developed by Cody Lindley, but I do not know if it works with WP.
Good luck!
If you want multi-line tool tips you can do this….
In the CSS
a.tooltip:hover span{display:inline; position:absolute; border:2px solid black;background:whitesmoke; color:green;}
a.tooltip:hover{text-decoration:none;}
a.tooltip span{display:none; padding:2px 3px; margin-left:8px; width:200px;}
In the HTML
<a class="tooltip" href="http://emptylink.com/">Link Text<span>This is a CSS tool tip<br> It's multi-line for clarity<br> Clarity is important in tool tips</span></a>
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Hi FishDogFish,
That’s a great solution as well. For some reason it didn’t even occur to me to do it through CSS: I guess two heads think better than one! 🙂
You didn’t think of it, so my head thinks better than yours.
