I love the hover effects of StackOverflow.
I want to use similar feature
I know this is old, but I was looking for the same thing, and... In case anyone wants something that actually looks like StackOverflow's tag tooltips... (and why wouldn't you? they're totally awesome)
Demo: http://jsbin.com/korehubi/10
Code: http://jsbin.com/korehubi/10/edit
Painstakingly reproduced by going through StackOverflow's code.
Usage:
The thing to hover over.
This is the tooltip content.
coolTips()
on page load.Note the contents of the tooltip div in the example above is just to demonstrate usage. You need to use HTML tags for the tooltip content as shown in the jsbin link, in order to have StackOverflow-esque formatted tooltips. You'll also need all the CSS shown there.
Enjoy :)
Update: Now checks if the tooltip would leak out of the window border, and animates from the right or bottom instead in those cases.