My HTML Element Has a Chinese Title. Can jQuery Help Me Render the Tooltip Correctly in the Browser?
Here is my HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="www.cnn.com" title="甲骨文">A link with a Chinese title</a>
</body>
</html>
- If you hover over the link in Firefox, the Chinese characters are correctly displayed in the tooltip.
- However, if you hover over the link in IE8, Google Chrome, or Saf开发者_StackOverflow社区ari, three blocks are displayed.
My Question:
Can jQuery help me override the default browser 'title' tooltip behavior and correctly display the Chinese characters?
There are many JavaScript-tooltip scripts available, as jQuery plugins or otherwise. They are typically meant for including images or other hypertextual content, but would have the side-effect of using browser fonts instead of the OS UI font for tooltips in IE.
However, I wouldn't resort to JavaScript tooltips just for that. The desktop of a Chinese user will certainly have a working Chinese OS font installed so the tooltip will work fine there. If it does not, it is quite unlikely that there will be a Chinese font available to browser document content. Especially on IE, which traditionally has a poorer browser-font-fallback mechanism than Firefox. (Can IE even render in-page Chinese content on your machine?)
To fix this problem on a Windows XP machine, right-click on the desktop, then go to Properties > [Appearance Tab] > Advanced > Item[Tooltip] > and change the font to 'Arial Unicode MS' (or some other unicode-supporting font).
Everything should work now.
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