# tipsy
**Repository Path**: mirrors_glensc/tipsy
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: tipsy
- **Description**: Facebook-style tooltips plugin for jQuery
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No
## Statistics
- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-24
- **Last Updated**: 2026-01-31
## Categories & Tags
**Categories**: Uncategorized
**Tags**: None
## README
# tipsy
Facebook-style tooltip plugin for jQuery
(c) 2008-2010 Jason Frame (jason@onehackoranother.com)
Released under The MIT License.
## Description:
tipsy is a simple jQuery plugin for generating Facebook-style tooltips.
It's used by Twitter, Github, Slideshare and Bitbucket, amongst others.
## Homepage:
http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/tipsy
## Source:
Hosted at GitHub; browse at:
http://github.com/jaz303/tipsy/tree/master
Or clone from:
git://github.com/jaz303/tipsy.git
## Usage:
1. Copy the contents of src/{javascripts,stylesheets} to the corresponding asset directories in your project.
2. Insert the neccesary elements in your document's `` section, e.g.:
Remember to include jquery.tipsy.js *after* including the main jQuery library.
3. Initialise Tipsy in your document.onload, e.g.:
Since jQuery 1.9, 'live' tipsy expects selector as live option, e.g:
$(document).tipsy({
live: '.live-tooltip'
});
## Shadow:
You can add shadow to Tipsy like this :
Please refer to the docs directory for more examples and documentation.