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Tooltips not working

OK, I am baffled on how to get Bootstrap 3 Tooltip working.
Bootstrap Tooltip "instructions"
http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#tooltips
Says to trigger using:
$('#example').tooltip(options)
then HTML to write
Hover over me
No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get it working. There is no ID named example in their example, and adding said ID does not work (I wrap the script in a script tag and have added it before and after the anchor).
But, after looking around on Google, I found the following code, which when added makes the Tooltip work as it should.
$(function () { $("[data-toggle='tooltip']").tooltip(); });
So, my question is, How the hell do I get it working with the provided Bootstrap code! What am I missing? They really need to work on their instructions. This should not take this long to figure out when it should be simple!

I was able to recreate this in a fiddle. Check the console on your browser if you are getting javascript errors. Looking at the code you have provided though it hits me that you might be mixing two things together. The options need to be defined in your javascript code and not in HTML, like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
var option = {
title: "example",
placement: "bottom"
};
$("#example").tooltip(option);
});

Well, this is about how to read the document of bootstrap.
$('#example').tooltip(options)
just presents how to use the jquery method, and it is not right for the following html:
Hover over me
The method must be called in order to active the tooltips plugin. So, in order to make the html working with the plugin, you need to do two steps:
add an id into the html, say,
Hover over me
call the jquery method,
$('#tips').tooltip(options)

jQuery hover only works one time

I am fairly new to jQuery, but I feel like I have a pretty decent grasp on it. Or at least this part of it. I've been through quite a few tutorials on jQuery, but I've never run into this problem before.
I want to hover on an image and have it reveal a small paragraph beside it. I have written this jQuery that does exactly what I want it to do, except it only works once. Hovering over the image reveals the description paragraph, and moving outside the image hides it again, but then hovering won't do anything. Any ideas why this might be?
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#novelDescrip').hide();
$('#barDescrip').hide();
$('.novel').hover(function(){
$('#novelDescrip').fadeIn('slow', 1);
},
function(){$('#novelDescrip').hide();}
);
$('#barminder').hover(function(){
$('#barDescrip').fadeIn('slow', 1);
},
function(){$('#barDescrip').hide();
});
});

This should explain the use of toggle as well as the link Jorge posted.
How do I check if an element is hidden in jQuery?
Here are a few methods to get you started with the jQuery toggle function:
$('.click').click(function() {
$('.target').toggle();
});
$('.click').click(function() {
$('.target').slideToggle();
});
$('.click').click(function() {
$('.target').fadeToggle();
});
The slide and fade are used to give the toggle a slide or fade out effect.
You can also use the following attributes for different things:
$('element:hidden')
$('element:visible')
Or you can do the same with is:
$(element).is(":hidden")
$(element).is(":visible")
Answer to your question: since you didn't post your html I can't test anything for you, but I'd recommend following the tutorials stated above or changing hide() to show() at some parts of your code.
Hope that helps.

Replacing paragraph tag contents with a random word from javascript

When a user enters the page I would like a div to be in the center with a heading, a quote underneath that is randomly picked from a list and a button to enter the site. This is all well and good but I cannot seem to get the button to fade in the main site and fade out the landing div. Here is a jsfiddle to try and help explain things more.
JSFIDDLE
As you will probably be able to tell, I'm not that great with JavaScript or jquery and what I have done so far is from learning bits and pieces and surfing the web through code examples
I do not see why it will not work as I had a play around in jsfiddle with a simplified version of what I want to do and it worked.
Simplified Version
Below code is simplified version (It wouldn't let me post without adding code?)
HTML
<div class="landingDiv">
<h1>LANDING DIV</h1>
<button id="showMain">Enter Site</button>
</div>
<div class="main">
<h1>Main Site</h1>
</div>
JQUERY
$("#showMain").click(function () {
$(".main").fadeIn(1000);
$(".landingDiv").fadeOut(1000);
});
CSS
.main {
display: none;
opactiy: 0;
}
Thanks in advanced.
Steve.

The first jQuery example threw an error:
$ is not defined
meaning jQuery is not defined/included. Which it wasn't. But in the second jsFiddle, you included jQuery.
You'll notice that on the left hand side of jsfiddle, you'll see that under the "Framewords & Extensions" heading that you can include a Framewordk - so, include jQuery!
Here is the updated fiddle with jQuery included: http://jsfiddle.net/6cGHF/1/
As you move forward in your JavaScript development, it is always a good idea to check your browsers developer tools for errors when something unexpected is happening. It always helps you, and when you ask questions on StackOverflow, providing these errors help us! :)
The shortcut for developer tools in Chrome is F12 - you can see a little red circle with an X in it if you have errors - click it for more info. But developer tools are also available in other major browsers (except IE8 and below).
Edit:
Wrap your click() event function in a $(document).ready()
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#showMain").click(function () {
$(".main").fadeIn(1000);
$(".landingDiv").fadeOut(1000);
});
});
What was happening was that your HTML file is read from top to bottom. So it would have reached your click function before the #showMain element had been read. So, jQuery couldn't find it.
The reason this wasn't a problem in jsFiddle was because all the JavaScript code was wrapped in an "onLoad" function (which is, admittedly, a little different to $(document).ready()) but it solved this problem for you by executing your JavaScript after everything had already been loaded. You can see that on the left hand side in the fiddle I linked above, you'll find a dropdown with "onLoad" selected. In it, you can also choose "OnDomready" (which would be equivalent to $(document).ready())
In summary:
DON'T use $(document).ready() in jsFiddle. You don't need it.
DO use $(document).ready() around javascript that relies on the fact that the DOM is ready (ie. "all of your content is visible to your JavaScript").

The problem in your fiddle is you have not added jQuery so when you try and reference it with '$', a javascript error is thrown. Simply add in the reference to a jQuery library and your fiddle works to fade out the button when clicked.

Your problems:
1) Add jQuery library to your fiddle.
2) Remove opacity:0; from .main in your CSS. The display:none; is sufficient.
3) Use this to fade out/in the elements:
$("#showMain").click(function () {
$(".landingDiv").fadeOut(1000, function () {
$(".main").fadeIn(1000);
})
});

How to use onmouseover?

I have a list being displayed on a JSP. On mouse hover on any of the value i need to show a description corresponding that value. Need to show description not as an alert and also cannot make the values as hyperlink.
eg.
suppose the value is ABC so on mouse hover should show AppleBoyCat.
need to use onmouseover. let me know how to do it..

What do you want to do? If you just want to show a tooltip, you can set the title attribute of any element and it will be displayed as a tooltip.
Also, the abbr tag can be used as tooltips too:
<abbr title="test">stuff</abbr>

You can go about it in two ways:
1 - a hidden dom object (a div for instance) which reveals itself when you roll over whatever
or
2 - you can rewrite the html of the particular element you're mousing over.
You can load this data in when you load everything else (either as Javascript objects, or as markup, though that's much bulkier) or you can asynchronously load the description data from a service when you mouse over (though you'll have more lag).
jQuery is a quick and dirty way to achieve this (more quick than dirty), but straight JS or pretty much any other JS library will do as well.

Perhaps not the cleanest solution but something like this:
<a class='hover' rel='tooltip'>Link</a>
//Some hidden div, putting css inline just for example
<div id='tooltip' style='display:none;'>Content</div>
$(function() {
$('.hover').mouseover(function() {
var tooltip = $(this).attr('rel');
$('#' + tooltip).fadeIn();
});
});
And offcourse add a callback hiding it again. It just takes the value from rel of the link and use as an id for the div to show.
This is a quick and dirty solution, can be made alot smoother if you just work with it a little;)
There also alot of plugins out there allowing the same functionality in a cleaner fashion.
*Edit: Just noticed you added a comment on another post that you can't use jQuery.. shouldn't tag a post with something you're not intending to use.

As TJHeuvel already said, you can simply use the title attribute.
Best approach is to build the list with both the value and title attribute from within JSP, if not possible for some reason, you can build client side array of each value and its corresponding description then using JavaScript dynamically assign the title on mouseover.
Show us some more code to get more/better help.

For simple tooltips, the title attribute is most effective, as pointed out by TJHeuvel
If you need more advanced tooltips with HTML and CSS formatting, I'd suggest you use an external library.
One that works nicely without jQuery ist wz_tooltip download here, documentation here
When included correctly, you can add tooltips by calling the functions Tip() and UnTip() as follows:
Homepage

Changing styles on navigation links - including next and prev buttons

I'm currently working on a website for a Danish company. The content is all in one page and I've included some jQuery-scrolling and stuff. Works nice!
For the menu I'm asked to programme the elements so the active element is bold. That I've done too.
The problem comes here:
The client wants a home button and a next and previous button. But when I click them and the page scrolls the CSS-classes do not change for the active element - so the bold element in the menu is still the last clicked page.
I hope that anyone can help.
The page can be seen at:
http://vedelform.dk/new/intro/

In addition to calling the serialscroll plugin, the event handler for the images needs to update the appropriate class name on your navigation link. When you click on a navigation link directly, you call the changeActiveStates function, but that isn't happening with the home, next, and previous buttons.
You should use the onBefore attribute of the serialScroll plugin to define a method that will figure out which navigation link is supposed to receive the class name. It can then call the changeActiveStates function.
It doesn't look like it would take more than a few more lines of code to fix your problem. If you need more help getting it to work, let me know.
edit:
If you add this (starting at line 84 of init.js), you should be in business:
easing: 'swing',
onBefore:function(e, elem, $pane, $items, pos){
if ((pos >= 0)&&(pos < $('ul.navigation > li > a').size())) changeActiveStates($('ul.navigation > li > a').get(pos));
return true;
}
You will then need to call changeActiveStates (probably after you initialize the function) on page load to initialize the correct menu item.
I hope that helps; let me know if it gives you any more trouble.

You used minified version of scripts so it is very hard to debug the code. Also you didnt give us name of plugin you use. I think there is a bug in plugin. Because css class "selected" sould jump from one menu item to another.

#Jason Francis:
You're probably right. I'm not that much into jQuery and Javascript and what I've done so far is more luck than it's knowledge. I did A LOT of trial and error.
I understand what you're saying about getting the serialScroll plugin to figure out what element to call changeActiveStates on - but I seriously don't know how to do that.