Example: Add Tool Tips to Controls

Tool tips are .NET control properties.  Iron Speed Designer places them in your application’s ASPX pages.

Button controls

For button controls, there is a "Tool tip" field on the Property Sheet.

Property

Value

Button-ToolTip

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Other controls

For other controls, set the"ToolTip" property in the Property Sheet.  Do not use quote marks around the text.

Group

Property

Value

Behavior

ToolTip

Enter a freight value

These code generation tags and their corresponding .NET controls have tool tips:

Code generation tag

Corresponding .NET control

FieldFilter
FieldValue

Dropdown list

FieldValue

Radio button list

FieldValue

List box

FieldFilter
FieldValue

Text box

FieldLabel
FieldValue

Label

FieldLabel

Hyperlink

FieldValue

(Image Button, Link Button, Push Button)

Button

FieldValue

Check box

Controls without tool tips

Not all .NET controls have a ToolTip property, and the property mechanism will pass anything you enter through to the ASPX page, whether it makes sense or not.  If the underlying control supports the property (ToolTip), then it will function properly.  If not, then it's likely you'll get an ‘Internal Server Error’.  For example, .NET literal controls don't have a ToolTip property, so you'll get an Internal Server Error when displaying a page containing a literal with a ToolTip properly.

These .NET controls are known not to support tool tips:

Code generation tag

Corresponding .NET control

FieldValue

Literal

See Also

The ToolTip property is a .NET property defined at the WebControls level, which means that many controls support them.  See:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwebuiwebcontrolswebcontrolclasstooltiptopic.asp

See Also

Code Generation Tag Properties