Hide tooltips on menus and links

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1/28/2010 9:29:12 AM
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Hide tooltips on menus and links

Hello,

How can I hide the tooltips on menus and links?

 

Thanks,

 

Matías Molleja

1/29/2010 2:01:52 PM
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Re: Hide tooltips on menus and links

Hi Matias,

You know I agree with you on the menus, we should not have tooltips the same as the text link, it adds no value. I will look into removing them.

For other links please be specific which links? I think for edit links it can be very helpful to have a longer description for a tooltip and for graphic links it is essential for accesibility. But if the tooltip on a text link is the same as the link text it is not really helpful and I'm sure we have some like that where we need to either remove it or add a longer tooltip with more info.

Best,

Joe

1/31/2010 1:16:37 PM
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Re: Hide tooltips on menus and links

Hello Joe,

In my case is more a question of design (make things "nice") than funcionality. If you look at many beatifully designed sites usually the links have no title. I agree with you: usability and accesibility is better with title tags but I think that the CMS should not impose an option to the skin designer in this matter.

Maybe you could include a setting to remove title attribute on every CMS generated link.

Or, easier, you could explain how to do it using clientscript.

I tried to do it using JQuery but I'm not proficient enough with this library.

I included this snippet on my layout.master head section :

<script type="text/javascript">

$(document).ready(function() {
$("a").removeAttr("title");
});
 

And I'm receiving this error: "Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object expected".

 

Thanks

Matías Molleja

1/31/2010 1:41:22 PM
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Re: Hide tooltips on menus and links

If you see the menu and navigation links on this site, you will see I have removed the tooltips from places where the tooltip is the same as the link text. So this will be fixed in the next release of mojoPortal. If there are other specific links you think should not have tooltips we can discuss them on a case by case basis.

Best,

Joe

2/1/2010 1:53:34 AM
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Re: Hide tooltips on menus and links

Hello Joe,

Thank you! I think its better now.

Btw, the "Register" link at the top of the page still shows the title.

 

Best Regards,

 

Matías Molleja

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