What is Tooltip？
A tooltip is a small pop-up or hover box that appears when you hover your mouse over a specific element on a webpage. These tooltips are often used to provide additional information, explanations, or context about the element being hovered over.
What is wordpress tooltip plugin?
WordPress tooltip plugin is a tooltips plugin for wordpress, which be designed to help you create colorful, varied and graceful tooltip styles to present the content to your users, with lively and elegant animation effects, and save your valuable screen space.
When the users hover over an item, the colorful tooltip popup box will display with the animation effect. You can add video, audio, image, and even other content which generated by 3rd wordpress plugins like QR code, Amazon AD, Google Map in tooltip popup box via wordpress standard editor, it is very easy to use.
What is z-index?
The z-index property in CSS controls the stacking order of elements on a webpage. When multiple elements overlap, the z-index determines which element appears in front of the others. The higher the z-index value, the closer the element is to the top of the stacking order.
Why need customize Z-index in wordpress tooltip plugin?
Some wordpress tooltip users told us, their wordpress theme have a very high Z-index value, so when users hover tooltip term in wordpress posts, users can not find wordpress popup box, after checked this wordpress tooltip user’s site, we found if the tooltip appears behind other elements, it could be obscured, making it difficult or impossible for users to read the tooltip content.
Another example is we got an wordpress tooltip user’s ticket, in which he said:
Hello support team, I’m grateful for your speedy response. I like the plugin and will purchase once I can get the free version running.
1. The issue is shown on each page of the website
2. Issue: you’ll notice on the URL example above; the tooltip doesn’t appear as you hover or click on the term words that are underlined with a dotted line.Additionally, I have the corresponding glossary set at seekinward.net/glossary which appears to be working fine. Please let me know if you need additional information.
Thank you so very much again for you quick response. I’m hopeful to get this running.
We checked his site carefully, we found in his wordpress site, there are a plugin set the z-index to -1, so wordpress tooltip window cannot displayed in his wordpress posts.
Adjusting the z-index ensures that the tooltip is displayed prominently and doesn’t get hidden by surrounding content. So we added an option “Custom tooltip z-index value” for wordpress tooltip users 🙂
How to custom z-index in wordpress tooltip plugin?
1: If you are using wordpress tooltips pro plugin, please click wordpress tooltip download to download newest version of wordpress tooltip pro + plugin, if you are wordpress tooltip free user, please download wordpress tooltip plugin from wordpress lib.
2: Upload the wordpress tooltip plugin (zip file) via plugins panel in your wordpress, if you are new user of wordpress tooltip, please check our video of how to install wordpress tooltip at: WordPress Tooltips Video Tutorial 3: How to upload and activate wordpress tooltips pro plugin
3: Log in your wordpress site as admin, in wordpress dashboard, please click on Tooltips menu item, then click “Global settings” sub menu item, you will open wordpress global settings panel, we make a screenshot for users, although it is come from wordpress tooltips pro plugin, but the option of “custom tooltip z-index value” section is the same in wordpress tooltip free plugin, it looks like this:
Global Settings in WordPress Tooltips Free Version 9.0.3 by tooltips.org
As you can observe, within the “custom tooltip z-index value” panel, You can drag the color slider to adjust the value of the Z-INDEX. For instance, if your theme z-index setting is 10000, you can set the z-index of wordpress tooltip window to 15000 , Afterward, simply click the blue “update now” button, On the front-end, when users mouse hover the tooltip term, the tooltip window will appear.
Conclusion:
In wordpress tooltip plugin, the necessity of adjusting the z-index for the tooltip window is likely to ensure that the tooltip appears above other elements on the page, such as text, images, or other UI elements. Here are a few reasons why this might be necessary:
- Avoiding Overlapping Content: If the tooltip appears behind other elements, it could be obscured, making it difficult or impossible for users to read the tooltip content. Adjusting the
z-indexensures that the tooltip is displayed prominently and doesn’t get hidden by surrounding content. - Design and Aesthetics: Web designers often use
z-indexto control the visual hierarchy of elements on a webpage. By setting a specificz-indexfor the tooltip, the webmaster can ensure that it aligns with the overall design and layout of the site. - Responsive Design: In responsive web design, elements can change position and layout based on the screen size and orientation. Adjusting the
z-indexof the tooltip can help maintain its visibility and positioning, especially on smaller screens or when elements shift due to different device orientations. - Customization: Some websites may have complex layouts with various layers of elements. Customizing the
z-indexallows the webmaster to fine-tune the tooltip’s appearance and behavior in relation to other page elements.
To set the z-index for a tooltip in a WordPress plugin, the webmaster would typically provide an option or parameter within the plugin’s settings. This way, users of the plugin can adjust the z-index value according to their specific design and layout requirements.
Overall, the ability to control the z-index of tooltips ensures that they function as intended, providing helpful information without being obstructed by other page elements.
We have included a link of this wordpress tooltip document with custom tooltip z-index value option, you can find this document link in wordpress tooltip free version 9.0.7, wordpress tooltips pro version 18.0.6, wordpress tooltips pro plus 24.2.8
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