Tooltip: does not always stay open when a form field is focused.

[[email protected]…]

Our users have noted in testing that tooltips tend to close when the mouse is moved around the screen and over a form field even if that form field has focus. Could we have an option (or the default) for the tooltip to stay open when a form field has focus regardless of what the mouse does?

[Scott González]

We had this behavior in 1.9.0 where focus always won over hover, but we changed it in 1.9.1 so that tooltips triggered via hover are dismissed via hover and tooltips triggered via focus are dismissed via blur. This is consistent with the ARIA authoring practices and avoids other bugs. Is the behavior from 1.9.0 what you're looking for?

[[email protected]…]

I believe so. It could be done only for input fields for example, or as a configurable option? The current method is fine if someone is tabbing through a form, but many of our users aren't that savvy and tend to click on each form element. In that case the tooltip closes when they move their mouse away to fill out the form. Sometimes they never notice the tooltip and thus never see the help text we had for them.