How to add a twitter bootstrap tooltip to an icon

Question

I would like to add a right-tooltip from Twitter Bootstrap to an icon element.

The code is this:

<h3>Sensors Permissions <i class="icon-info-sign"></i></h3>

I would that, when the cursor is over the icon, a right-tooltip with some information is shown.

Answer 1

I've recently used it like this:

 <i class="icon-ok-sign" rel="tooltip" title="Key active" id="blah"></i>

Which produces:

You set the positioning of the tooltip and other features(delays etc) by declaring it using js:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("[rel=tooltip]").tooltip({ placement: 'right'});
});

As mentioned in comments, you can find other attributes/options here.

Answer 2

You might be forgetting to initialize your tooltips with .tooltip().

The .tooltip() function must be called on every element that you want to have a tooltip listener. This is for performance purposes. You can initialize a bunch at once by calling the function on a parent, like so: $('.tooltip-group').tooltip()

View the initialize function on one element on JSFiddle.

Javascript

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#example').tooltip();
});

Markup

<h3>
  Sensors Permissions
  <i class="icon-info-sign" data-toggle="tooltip" title="first tooltip" id='example'></i>
</h3>

Answer 3

@nickhar's answer, using data-toggle="tooltip" tested with Bootstrap 2.3.2 and 3.0 :

 <i class="icon-ok-sign" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Key active" id="blah"></i>

Which produces:

You set the positioning of the tooltip and other features(delays etc) by declaring it using js:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("[data-toggle=tooltip]").tooltip({ placement: 'right'});
});

As mentioned in comments, you can find other attributes/options here.

Answer 4

in javascript

$(function () {
    $(".has-tooltip-right").tooltip({ placement: 'right'}); 
    $(".has-tooltip-left").tooltip({ placement: 'left'}); 
    $(".has-tooltip-bottom").tooltip({ placement: 'bottom'}); 
    $(".has-tooltip").tooltip(); 
});

in html

<a href="#" class="has-tooltip-bottom" title="" data-original-title="Tooltip">This link</a> 
and <a href="#" class="has-tooltip" title="" data-original-title="Another link">that link</a>