Excalibur Software Cooltips 1.0

HTML Support in Cooltips

Excalibur Software has endeavored to provide the HTML support in the Cooltips server that is most likely to be used in a "tooltip" setting. In addition, minimal support for table and anchor tags are now supported as adaptions from code modifications that were submitted by Brian Kummel. Requirements for HTML formatting are relatively loose, but some standard conventions are required for certain HTML tags.

Supported Tags, Basic

<body>
<b>
<i>
<u>
<h#>
<center>
<br>
<img>
<font>
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Newly Supported Tags

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<a>

Some tag parameters for the above tags are also supported. The required convention for parameters by the Cooltip's HTML parser is that parameter values be enclosed in single quotes. For example:
Valid tag
<font color='#FF0000'>
Invalid tag
<font color=#FF0000>

Parameters that specify a picture can refer to either a JPG, GIF, ICO, or BMP file on disk, or the index of a picture added to the Cooltip's picture array with the AddPicture method. For instance, if AddPicture has been used to add a single picture to the Cooltip's picture array, the only index available will be 0. So, if you wanted to use that picture in a <img> tag, you would include HTML in the caption of the Cooltip along the lines of:
<img src='0'>

Following is a list of parameters supported in HTML tags.

Supported Tags, Expanded

<body>
- bgcolor
- text
- link
- alink
- background
<img>
- src
<font>
- color
- face
- size
<table>
- colspan (required parameter)
- width (required parameter)
<a>
- id
- href