Tooltip for GWT

Question

GWT does provide tooltip with something like:

Label label = new Label("test");
label.setTitle("This is a tooltip");

Is there a way to style such tooltips? Is there a library for GWT that supports this?

Edit: How do I set the time for the tooltip to appear?

Have you inspected the DOM at all? Is the tooltip just an attribute or a widget drawn by GWT? What classes are applied? — chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-, Jan 30 '14 at 22:36
This question appears to be off-topic because it shows no effort to solve the problem. — chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-, Jan 30 '14 at 22:36

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '14 at 09:40

You can use GWTQuery for doing tooltip, there are a Plugin for that. GwtQuery is a clone of JQuery but build in java.

You can find the demo here :

With this sample code, you can create toolkit for all title in the page :

$("[title]", toolbar).as(Tooltip).tooltip();

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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The real answer to your question is : No, native tooltip style can't be modified.

Alternatives are creating your own tooltips:

Note that if you keep using the title attribute the native tooltip will be shown over your custom tooltip.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

Community

answered Feb 12 '14 at 10:40

Michael Laffargue

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 30 '14 at 22:14

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You can use CSS First, you add the style you want in your css Then you set that style to the element you want with label.setStyleName("myStyle");

answered Jan 30 '14 at 22:14

Hassen Ch.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 31 '14 at 03:58

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Tooltips can be styled with CSS. You can use one of the online tools:

answered Jan 31 '14 at 03:58

Andrei Volgin

How do I set the time for the tooltip to appear? – Michael Jan 31 '14 at 04:15
You can't do it in CSS. You can set "title" on a Label when you want (e.g. on MouseOver, etc.) – Andrei Volgin Jan 31 '14 at 04:21
I could use a PopupPresenter to show the tooltip. Do you know ho I can bind a MouseOver event on all elements that have a title attribute set? Do I have to delete the title attribute that the default browser tooltip does not show up the same time? – Michael Jan 31 '14 at 04:30
Don't set 'title" and there will be no default popup. You create handlers for MouseOver events the same way as for any other events in GWT. – Andrei Volgin Jan 31 '14 at 04:34

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