I too was having the same problem, but just solved it. Something you said about needing to call it after the element was created sparked the solution.
You need to specify the function inside a document.ready, however I use the shortcut. $(function(){ $('img').tooltip(); }); That should work. Chris On Aug 16, 4:08 pm, Matthew <divmed...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am having trouble getting tooltips to work with the generated custom > error message created by the validator plugin. I noticed that the > tooltips do not work on dynamically generated elements unless the $ > ('a').tooltip(); is called sometime after the element is actually > created. > > My custom error message for validator would be something like: > <img src="images/forms/alert.png" width="20" height="20" alt="FIX!" > id="input1" title="Please enter your name using letters only. No > special characters are allowed." /> > > Then I would need to call: > $('img').tooltip(); > > Thanks for your ideas.