jQuery UI Tooltips option() Method

Last Updated : 16 Feb, 2021

jQuery UI consists of GUI widgets, visual effects, and themes implemented using jQuery, CSS, and HTML. jQuery UI is great for building UI interfaces for the webpages. jQuery UI tooltip widget helps us to adds new themes and allows for customization. In this article, we will see how to use option method in jQuery UI tooltips. The option method is used to get an object containing key/value pairs representing the current tooltip in jQuery UI.

Syntax:

var a = $(".selector").tooltip("option");

Parameters: This method does not accept any parameters

CDN Link:

First, add jQuery UI scripts needed for your project.

<link href=”https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css” rel=”stylesheet”>
<script src=”https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js”></script>
<script src=”https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.js”></script>

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  <head> 
    <meta charset="utf-8" /> 
    <link href= 
"https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css"
      rel="stylesheet"/> 
    <script src= 
"https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script src= 
"https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.js"> 
    </script> 
  
    <h1 style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h3>jQuery UI | Tooltip option method</h3> 
  
    <script> 
      $(function () { 
        $("#gfgtt").tooltip({ 
          track: true, 
        }); 
        $("#gfg").click(function () { 
          var a = $("#gfgtt").tooltip("option"); 
          console.log(a); 
        }); 
      }); 
    </script> 
  </head> 
  
  <body> 
    <input id="gfg" type="submit" name="GeeksforGeeks" value="click" /> 
    <span id="gfgtt" title="GeeksforGeeks"> Click here!</span> 
  </body> 
</html> 