Plain JavaScript tooltip

Question

I am trying to make a tooltip in plain JavaScript which is shown on hover. Like the one in Stack Overflow on hover over the profile name a div is s

Answer 1

Solution with no JavaScript

This uses CSS pseudo hover to set the display of the hidden element. The display none needs to be in the style and not on the element so it can be overwritten in the hover.

HTML:

First Link
    Content 1 


Second Link
     Content 2 

CSS:

.couponcode:hover .coupontooltip { /* NEW */
    display: block;
}


.coupontooltip {
    display: none;  /* NEW */
    background: #C8C8C8;
    margin-left: 28px;
    padding: 10px;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1000;
    width:200px;
    height:100px;
}

.couponcode {
    margin:100px;
}

Example:

jsFiddle

Follow-Up:

If you need to support really old browsers, you would need to add a class to the outside element when the mouse enters the div. And remove that class when mouse leaves.

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EDIT

Your code did not work because what is tp? Is a collection of elements and you are treating it as one. What you would need to do is pass in the reference to the element

HTML:

**JavaScript:

//var name = document.getElementsByclassName("name");  /* not needed */
//    var tp = document.getElementsByclassName("tooltip"); /* not needed */


function show (elem) {  /* added argument */
    elem.style.display="block"; /* changed variable to argument */
}
function hide (elem) { /* added argument */
    elem.style.display="";  /* changed variable to argument */
}