Hide native tooltip using jQuery

Question

Is there a way to hide the native tooltip action when a user hovers over a anchor tag with a title attribute? I don\'t want to remove it just don\'t display the nasty yellow

Answer 1

To get it out of the title, I would use the data() method:

$(document).ready( function () {
    $('.items_with_title').each( function () {
        $(this).data('title', $(this).attr('title') );
        $(this).removeAttr('title');
    });
});

// to access it
$(document).ready( function () {
    $('A').click( function () {
        alert($(this).data('title'));
    });
});

You could also make the selector for any item that has a title attribute:

$('*[title]').each(...