# Hover effect for column data field **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 9, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hover-effect-for-column-data-field/162355 "2009-03-09T06:35:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![salil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@salil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/salil)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hover-effect-for-column-data-field/162355/1 "2009-03-09T06:35:54Z")
Hi All i have a table column field which is of 50 characters i am showing only 10 out of it so that my layout remain proper. what i want is when i hover on that field it should show me all the content of that field AT THE SAME ROW.So when i hover on a that column field it should show me all the field data on the same row. I don’t want to use title parameter of HTML. I don’t know where to post this topic? in rails is there any way to do it? or i have to implement it only using javascript and css. Ragers, Salil ---
**Author:** ![salil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@salil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/salil)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 8:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hover-effect-for-column-data-field/162355/2 "2009-03-09T08:28:26Z")
you’ll want to do this client-side to have no client/server- communication and thus instant loading of your content. rails ships with prototype, but it’s still javascript. so, to answer your question: use javascript and css. add an observer for mouseover and then do whatever is necessary (i.e. change div-overflow or z- index,…). ---
**Author:** ![salil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@salil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/salil)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hover-effect-for-column-data-field/162355/3 "2009-03-09T13:21:52Z")
You might find this helpful: [http://tracesof.blogspot.com/2009/02/creating-tooltips-using-rails-helper.html](http://tracesof.blogspot.com/2009/02/creating-tooltips-using-rails-helper.html). Using this code you can wrap the content of your table fields in a “with\_tooltip” block, which should give you the desired results. There are plenty of other resources on the same topic to be found on the web of course …