concept native tooltip in category jQuery

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The jQuery UI tooltip widget provides a customizable and themeable replacement for native tooltips that makes all items in this list possible. Because it’s a direct replacement, the tooltip widget uses the title attribute directly by default:

Figure 4.12. Comparison of a native tooltip (top) and the jQuery UI tooltip (bottom). The display of the native tooltip is controlled by the browser itself (this screenshot was taken in Chrome on OS X). The display of the jQuery UI tooltip is consistent across all browsers, and is highly configurable.