[OpenLayers-Users] tooltips for Controls?

[Linda Rawson]

I did this in the

redraw:
method of the panel.js itself with the following lines but it is a total
hack and only for my application:

var ctrlName = this.controls[i].CLASS_NAME.replace("OpenLayers.",
"").replace("Control.","");
var title = null;

if (ctrlName == "ZoomBox") {
  title = "Zoom to Location";
};
if (title != null) {
  element.title = title;
}
this.div.appendChild(element);
A title would be great as well as the ability to hide/show a control.

My understanding is that this title attribute is only good in IE.

Linda Rawson
On Jan 21, 2008 2:33 PM, Gregor Mosheh <gregor at hostgis.com> wrote:

> This one sounded easer than it turned out to be. :)
>
> HTML elements can have a title attribute, and most browsers will show
> that text when the mouse hovers over the element.
>
> How may I apply this to OL Controls? I tried a few of the more obvious
> approaches, such as adding "this.div.title = 'Pan the map'" in
> initialize() but to no avail.
>
> Is this non-trivial to do? Is a 'title' param something that would be
> useful to add to Control itself for making a general solution to this?
>
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Linda Rawson
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