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Need help customizing YUI tool

I really like the tool found here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/container/panelskin1_clean.html
but there are a couple of changes I'd like to make, although, I can't figure out how to add it in there, and there doesn't seem to be any information in the forums.

I want the window to popup *beside* the link, instead of over it, and I want the link to be aligned to the vertical middle of the tooltip. Does anyone know (or are even familiar enough with YUI) to explain how to do this, or even if it's possible? Thanks!

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Eddie Shipman

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Hi,

I'm trying to do a similar job in YUI but with Tooltips. Below is a snippet of my code. Any element with hoversymbol class displays a tooltip. I have failed to place the tooltip("tl","tr") by using the positioning configurationas you can see in my code.

// Symbol cells should have the class "hoversymbol".
// Needs the following libraries
//      css/container.css
//      js/yui/yahoo-dom-event.js
//      js/yui/container.js
//      js/yui/element-beta.js
var overlay;
var storedSymbolInfo = {
ADP : {name: 'AUTOMATIC DATA PROC', price: 45.17, change: 0.86, percent: 1.87 },
BR : {name: 'BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL', price: 22.35, change: 0.19, percent: 8.51 },
MSFT : {name: 'MICROSOFT', price: 34.76, change: 0.04, percent: 0.12 }
}
var toolTip;
function init() {
      var symbolCells = YAHOO.util.Dom.getElementsByClassName('hoversymbol', 'TD');
      overlay = new YAHOO.widget.Overlay("myOverlay",{visible:false,width:"175px" } );
      toolTip = new YAHOO.widget.Tooltip("myToolTip", {context:[symbolCells,"tl","tr"],
       visible:false,
       width:"175px",
       hidedelay:300,
       constraintoviewport:true});
      toolTip.align("tl","tr");
      toolTip.contextTriggerEvent.subscribe(
            function(type, args){
                  console.log("showSymbolInfo");
                  var context = args[0];
                  var cellElement = new YAHOO.util.Element(context);
                  if (displayedInfo && displayedInfo.symbolCell != cellElement) {
                        displayedInfo.symbolCell.removeClass('hoversymbol_active');
                  }
                  displayedInfo.symbolCell = cellElement;
                  context.addClass('hoversymbol_active');
                  context.align();
                  context.render();
      });
      toolTip.contextMouseOverEvent.subscribe(
            function(type,args){
                  console.log("tool tip mouseover event");
                  //this.cfg.setProperty("hidedelay",5000);
                  displaySymbolInfo(args[0]);
            }
      );

      toolTip.contextMouseOutEvent.subscribe(
            function(type, args){
                  console.log("tooltip mouseout event");
            }
      );

      YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(toolTip, "mouseover", extendTooltipLife);
      YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(toolTip, "mouseout", hideTooltip);
      console.log("init completed");

}

function hideTooltip(e){
      console.log("mouseout tooltip");
      toolTip.cfg.setProperty("hidedelay",100);
}

function extendTooltipLife(e){
      console.log("mouseover tooltip");
      toolTip.cfg.setProperty("hidedelay",1000);
}

function displaySymbolInfo(theCell){
      console.log("displaySymbolInfo");

      var cellElement = new YAHOO.util.Element(theCell);
      if(displayedInfo && displayedInfo.symbolCell != cellElement){
            displayedInfo.symbolCell.removeClass('hoversymbol_active');
      }
      var symbol = cellElement.getElementsByTagName('A')[0].innerHTML;
      var companyName;
      var headerString
      var symbolInfo = storedSymbolInfo[symbol];
      if (storedSymbolInfo[symbol]) {
            headerString = '<table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="center">';
            headerString += symbolInfo.price + '</td><td align="center" class="positive">+';
            headerString += symbolInfo.change + '</td><td align="center" class="positive">';
            headerString += symbolInfo.percent + '%</td></tr></table>';
            companyName = " <b>" + symbolInfo.name + "</b><br>";
      }
      var chartNav = '<div class="chartbar"><div class="chartoption selected">1d</div><div class="chartoption">5d</div>';
      chartNav += '<div class="chartoption">3m</div><div class="chartoption">6m</div><div class="chartoption">1y</div>';
      chartNav += '<div class="chartoption">2y</div><div class="chartoption">5y</div><br clear="all"/></div>';

      text = headerString+companyName + "<img src='https://app.quotemedia.com/quotetools/getChart.go?webmasterId=501&chtype=LineChart&symbol="+symbol+"&chmrg=3&chscale=3m&chwid=130&chhig=130&chsym="+symbolInfo.name+"' border='0' hspace='5'><br>" + chartNav+
       '<span class="chartlinks"> News | Profile | Stats | Chart<br> Quote | Option Chain | Trade</span>';
      toolTip.symbolCell = cellElement;
      //overlay.render(document.body);
      displayedInfo = toolTip;
      toolTip.symbolCell.addClass('hoversymbol_active');
      toolTip.cfg.setProperty("text", text);
      //overlay.align();
      //overlay.show();

      //YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(overlay.element, "mouseover", showSymbolInfo, overlay);
      //YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(overlay.element, "mouseout", timeoutSymbolInfo, overlay);
}
/*
function showSymbolInfo(e, theOverlay) {
      console.log("showSymbolInfo");
      if (displayedInfo && displayedInfo != theOverlay) {
            displayedInfo.symbolCell.removeClass('hoversymbol_active');
      }
      displayedInfo = theOverlay;
      theOverlay.symbolCell.addClass('hoversymbol_active');
      theOverlay.align();
      theOverlay.show();
      clearTimeout(displayedInfo.pause);
}
*/

function timeoutSymbolInfo(e, theOverlay) {
      console.log("timeoutSymbolInfo");
      if (displayedInfo && displayedInfo != theOverlay) {
            displayedInfo.symbolCell.removeClass('hoversymbol_active');
      }else{
            clearTimeout(displayedInfo.pause);
            displayedInfo.pause = setTimeout(hideDetails,300);
      }
}

function hideDetails() {
      displayedInfo.hide();
      displayedInfo.symbolCell.removeClass('hoversymbol_active');

}
var displayedInfo;

YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(window, "load", init);

HTML code:

<div class="pagecontainer yui-skin-sam">
      <div class="pagecontents">
            <br>
            <form name="AccountActivityForm" method="link" action="accountactivity.htm">
            <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
                  <tr class="columnheadings">
                        <th align="left" id="column-symbol">
                              <span class="labeldark"><a href="" onclick="return false;">Symbol</a></span>
                        </th>
                  </tr>
                  <tr class="rowshade_odd">
                        <td align="left" class="hoversymbol column-symbol Stock_US" nowrap>
                              <a href="#" class="Stock_US">ADP</a>
                        </td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr class="rowshade_even">
                                          <td align="left" class="hoversymbol column-symbol Stock_US" nowrap>
                                                <a href="#" class="Stock_US">BR</a>
                                          </td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr class="rowshade_odd">
                                          <td align="left" class="hoversymbol column-symbol Stock_US" nowrap>
                                                <a href="#" class="Stock_US">MSFT</a>
                                          </td>
                  </tr>
            </table>
      </div>
</div>