Anyone who uses Facebook is aware of the red-circled "1", "2", "3" . . . etc. that appears near the top of the screen. This images look like tooltips though stay visible until various other things in the app occur.
Is this something I can emulate with the RadToolTip? If so, how?
If not, do you have any suggestions how I could do it otherwise?
Robert
Is this something I can emulate with the RadToolTip? If so, how?
If not, do you have any suggestions how I could do it otherwise?
Robert
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Hi Robert,
I do not think RadToolTip is the right tool for this task. For one thing, there may be several such notifications/numbers at any given time, while only one RadToolTip can be shown.
Also, with its default borders and padding it would be rather difficult to make it so small.
What I can suggest is placing another HTML element inside the buttons/images wrapper (in the screenshot example - the globe or messages wrapper). That main wrapper can have position: relative; and the custom element that will show the notifications count can have top: 0; left: 0; position: absolute; in order to be shown at the top right corner. It can have a desginated CssClass so you can access it on the client if needed and create its styling, and it can be runat="server" so you can access, show and populate it from the server if needed.
Regards,
Marin Bratanov
Telerik
I do not think RadToolTip is the right tool for this task. For one thing, there may be several such notifications/numbers at any given time, while only one RadToolTip can be shown.
Also, with its default borders and padding it would be rather difficult to make it so small.
What I can suggest is placing another HTML element inside the buttons/images wrapper (in the screenshot example - the globe or messages wrapper). That main wrapper can have position: relative; and the custom element that will show the notifications count can have top: 0; left: 0; position: absolute; in order to be shown at the top right corner. It can have a desginated CssClass so you can access it on the client if needed and create its styling, and it can be runat="server" so you can access, show and populate it from the server if needed.
Regards,
Marin Bratanov
Telerik
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answered on 26 Aug 2013, 05:18 PM
Thanks, Marin. Just thought I'd ask in case you guys had some control that was already perfect for the task.