You can do 2 things, together or separate depending on your choice:
-increase the area that will respond to the mouse hover, so you don't have 
to be exactly on the link to see the tooltip
-lengthen the fadeOut delay.

I have implemented both at the URL below.

http://pmariani.github.com/html-example/


On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 3:41:48 PM UTC-7, Andy Fingerhut wrote:
>
> I would be happy to, if someone could teach me how to do it.  I didn't 
> write the JavaScript that does the tooltips -- I just took the TipTip 
> jQuery plugin and bashed away at it slightly until it did what I wanted. 
>  I've tried using "keepAlive: true" in the options it already implements to 
> see if it does what you want, but that behaves very strangely in my testing 
> on Firefox 11.0 (see [1] if you are curious).  I'm new to JavaScript, so 
> what is possible to do and how to do it are still mostly mysteries to me.
>
> [1] 
> https://github.com/jafingerhut/clojure-cheatsheets/blob/master/src/clj-jvm/cheatsheet_files/jquery.tipTip.js
>
> Andy
>
> On Mar 27, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Mark wrote:
>
> Love the new cheatsheet!  Because no good deed go unpunished:  Can you 
> make hiding the popup a little less sensitve?  I find myself looking at a 
> popup and then unconsciously moving the mouse into the popup text and that 
> causes the popup to disappear.
>
> On Monday, March 26, 2012 2:25:17 PM UTC-7, Andy Fingerhut wrote:
>>
>> Welcome, Pierre.
>>
>> Thanks for the info.  My current thinking is to start publishing on 
>> clojure.org two, or maybe even three versions of the cheatsheet:
>>
>> (1) no tooltips, just like the one published now, in case people find 
>> them annoying:
>>     http://clojure.org/cheatsheet
>>
>> (2) tooltips with the title attribute, for those that prefer 
>> web-standards-compliant pages, such as this one:
>>     
>> http://homepage.mac.com/jafingerhut/files/cheatsheet-clj-1.3.0-v1.4-tooltips/cheatsheet-title-attribute.html
>>
>> (3) tooltips using a modified TipTip jQuery plugin tool, for people like 
>> me who like its look & feel better than (2).
>>     
>> http://homepage.mac.com/jafingerhut/files/cheatsheet-clj-1.3.0-v1.4-tooltips/cheatsheet-full.html
>>
>> The nice thing is that all three of these are currently generated from 
>> the same program.  Not only are those three pages generated, but also 
>> several variations of A4-size and US letter-size PDF files, with links (but 
>> no tooltips in the PDF -- I don't know how to do that if it is even 
>> possible).  So far, it is still pretty straightforward for me to add a new 
>> symbol or category to the cheatsheet, and regenerate all of these things in 
>> a minute.
>>
>> There shouldn't need to be any argument over which of these should be 
>> "the one".  I say publish them all, with an easy way to get from one 
>> version to another in case you change your mind which one you want to use.
>>
>> And if I am stretching what a tooltip is meant to be, and thereby join 
>> the ranks of web-standards-heathens who stretch the original intent of 
>> these mechanisms, I do so proudly :-)
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Pierre Mariani wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, March 24, 2012 11:59:49 PM UTC-7, Andy Fingerhut wrote:
>>>
>>> I've tried again using links with doc strings as the values of the title 
>>> attribute, but when the text in Firefox 11.0 it does not honor the line 
>>> breaks in my text, but reflows it.  Try it out yourself at [1]:
>>>
>>> [1] 
>>> http://homepage.mac.com/​jafingerhut/files/cheatsheet-​clj-1.3.0-v1.4-tooltips/​cheatsheet-title-attribute.​html<http://homepage.mac.com/jafingerhut/files/cheatsheet-clj-1.3.0-v1.4-tooltips/cheatsheet-title-attribute.html>
>>>
>>> Is there a way that Firefox will let me specify where line breaks should 
>>> go?  If I put <pre> or <br> tags in the text of a title attribute, those 
>>> just show up literally in the text that the browser displays in the tool 
>>> tip.  I have line breaks in the title attribute value in my HTML, but 
>>> Firefox seems to be ignoring those.
>>>
>>> Safari and Chrome seem to honor the line breaks in the title attribute, 
>>> but they make the popup windows so narrow that the lines break in the 
>>> middle, in addition to where I put my line breaks, which is better but not 
>>> great.  Is there a way to tell the browser to make the popup windows wider?
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>> This is my first post to the list, so hi everybody!
>>
>> Andy,
>>
>> Tooltips are being rendered by the browser itself and you cannot control 
>> their aspect with HTML or CSS.
>> This bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358452 seems to be 
>> related to your issue, and it indicates that the behavior you are looking 
>> for should be implemented in FF12. Unfortunately, that doesn't fix it for 
>> other browsers, or older versions of FF.
>>
>> Sorry if it sounds critical and isn't very helpful at this stage, but I 
>> think the concept of tooltip is being stretched a little here. The 'title' 
>> attribute is not meant to contain one or several paragraphs of formatted 
>> text, and as such I would expect that you may run into more issues like 
>> this in the future.
>> I would personally use DL lists, have each function name in a DT and the 
>> corresponding docstring in a DD. I would then have a CSS sheet targeted at 
>> screen and handheld media hide the docstrings, and I would have javascript 
>> code show them on mouse hover and hide them on mouse out. I think that 
>> would ensure best semantical fit of content to HTML tags, best 
>> accessibility for visually impaired people, and reliable cross-browser 
>> behavior.
>>
>> http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/lists/dl.html
>> http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/lists/dt.html
>> http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/lists/dd.html
>> http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_mediatypes.asp
>>
>> Pierre 
>>
>>
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