nice trick.. summary of the topic

[jacob]

look at this url:

http://www.eruditionzone.com/forum/index.cfm?fuseaction=listings&CFB=1&forum=2

move your mouse on any title and see what will happen

[Wayne Luke]

It is done by using the "title" attribute which can be applied to any tag under the HTML 4.01 specification.

[Kier]

You'll see it in use if you hover over any of the vbcode buttons on the beta forums.

[Joe]

I use this in my postbit template, for the post count, location, and registered date, just put the mouse over the username for the popup, cleans up the forum quite a bit, you can see it in action at http://216.215.238.193/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1386

I also use the title= tag on my "five links" in the header, and i will also use them for the forum title like the site listed above in the near future, i just havent had time to put in the code yet.

I also use this for the (Read New | New Thread | Subscribe) links on the forum index, forgot about thoes ...

[jojo85]

Originally posted by jacob
look at this url:

http://www.eruditionzone.com/forum/index.cfm?fuseaction=listings&CFB=1&forum=2

move your mouse on any title and see what will happen
It's very easy to make!!

[Essam]

How can we do it to show a summary, not the whole post?

[mrlister]

it requires a extra query right?

[Essam]

Originally posted by mrlister
it requires a extra query right?

the summary? yeah I believe so,

[Wayne Luke]

You would have to pull the first post out of the database with the thread. With Joins, it wouldn't require another query just a more intense one.

Once you have the pagetext you can shorten it to the characters you want to show.