CSS Tooltips
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>CSS Tooltips</title> <style type="text/css"> body { line-height: 1.2; } a.tooltip { position: relative; } a.tooltip span { display: none; } a.tooltip:hover { font-size: 100%; } a.tooltip:hover span { display:block; position:absolute; top:1em; left:2em; padding: 0.2em 0.6em; border:1px solid #996633; background-color:#FFFF66; color:#000; } </style> </head> <body> <p><a href="" class="tooltip">this is a test. this is a test. <span> (asaa) </span></a> .</p> </body> </html>