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Description

Creates a tooltip with an image as button

Syntax

static tooltip($tooltip, $title= '', $image= 'tooltip.png', $text= '', $href= '', $link=1)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$tooltip		$tooltip The tip string
$title		$title The title of the tooltip
$image	'tooltip.png'	$image The image for the tip, if no text is provided
$text		$text The text for the tip
$href		$href An URL that will be used to create the link
$link	1	deprecated

Returns

string

Defined in

libraries/joomla/html/html.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.html.html' );

Source Body

public static function tooltip(
        $tooltip, $title = '', $image = 'tooltip.png', $text = '', $href = '', $link = 1
)
{
        $tooltip        = addslashes(htmlspecialchars($tooltip, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'));
        $title          = addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'));

        if (!$text) {
                $image  = JURI::root(true).'/includes/js/ThemeOffice/'. $image;
                $text   = '<img src="'. $image .'" border="0" alt="'. JText::_('Tooltip') .'"/>';
        } else {
                $text   = JText::_($text, true);
        }

        if ($title) {
                $title .= '::';
        }

        $style = 'style="text-decoration: none; color: #333;"';

        $tip = '<span class="editlinktip hasTip" title="' . $title . $tooltip . '" '
                . $style . '>';
        if ($href) {
                $href = JRoute::_($href);
                $style = '';
                $tip .= '<a href="' . $href . '">' . $text . '</a></span>';
        } else {
                $tip .= $text . '</span>';
        }

        return $tip;
}

Examples

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