We covered a lot of ground in this chapter. We learned how to use the qTip plugin to replace the browser's default tooltips with custom-designed tooltips. We saw how to take the customization a bit further by adding speech-bubble tooltips to a navigation bar. And finally, we used Ajax to pull in some external content, customizing not only the appearance of the tooltip, but also pulling in custom content, adding a title bar and close button, ensuring the tooltip would always be visible, and customizing the show and hide behaviors of the tooltip. I hope that you can see how flexible the qTip plugin is and how many uses it can have beyond just customizing the appearance of tooltips. Have fun experimenting with all the different settings listed in the plugin's documentation and see how creative you can be in customizing the appearance of your tooltips.

Next up, we'll take a look at creating nicely designed and animated dropdown navigation menus.