How to display Hints for choice list values?

[#1]

I love how column-level Hints are displayed when you hover over a column label. It would be great if the Hints for choice lists (aka picklist values) could be similarly displayed when a user hovers over the available choices for a given column, so the user could see exactly what each choice list value means before making their choice. Does anyone know how to do this?

[CapaJC]

To my knowledge, HTML Select Options will not take a title attribute, so the limitation here is unfortunately with HTML and the browser.

[nikita_mironov]

Hi
Just an idea. Might look confusing because of white cross on the red but possible workaround is to use the client script as described here: http://wiki.service-now.com/index.php?title=Display_Error_Message_on_Form

[farah]

The field message workaround may not work for choice list options.

There is a way with JQuery to script this.   But I am trying to figure out how to implement this as a script.   See example below.

<div id="tooltip" class="tooltip"></div>
<div class="container">
    <ul>
    <li class="book" title="book"></li>
    <li class="movie" title="movie"></li>
    <li class="tv" title="tv"></li>
    </ul>
</div>

<script>

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("ul li").mouseover(function() {
  $("#tooltip").text($(this).attr("title"));
    });
});
</script>

How can I get hold of the glide object for the "ul li" replacement?

[#5]

Hmmm... that _is_ an interesting idea. Thanks!