tooltips for table cells about shinybs HOT 2 CLOSED

There is something you could try, though some understanding of jQuery/CSS will help. shinyBS uses jQuery to select page elements based on their id. When shiny passes the id attribute to the output page, it prepends a "#" to indicate an id. There is nothing stopping you from expanding that id attribute to contain additional css selectors. for example, lets say your side table has an id of sideTable. If you wanted to add a tooltip to the first column header you could do something like this:

addTooltip(session, "sideTable th:nth-child(1)", "This is a tooltip")

The problem is the elements of the table aren't there when the page first loads so there isn't anything for the selector to select... As it stands now, you would need to write some sort of observer that fires after the table is rendered in order for jQuery to find the table cells.

I tested this on the Tables tab of bsDemo() by calling addTooltip() at the same time highlightCells() is called and it works, but it isn't exactly convenient.

Does this help?

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That helps, thanks! It gives me a much better appreciation for the breadth of the problem. I plan to try your suggestion.

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