You can easily create a tooltip menu using our JavaScript Tooltip library.
Simply add an onmouseover or onclick event to each top-level menu item, as shown below:
<span onmouseover="tooltip.pop(this, '#sub1')">Maecenas</span>
When the mouse hovers over the menu item, a dropdown submenu appears as a tooltip, displaying the HTML content of the element with id="sub1" from a hidden <div> :
<div style="display: none">
<!-- submenu#1 -->
<div id="sub1">
<div class="column">
<img src="src/tooltips-cd1.jpg" alt="" />
<a href="#">Duis a risus metus</a>
<a href="#">Nunc id ipsum felis</a>
(...ommitted for brevity...)
</div>
</div>
<!-- submenu#2 -->
<div id="sub2">
(...submenu for another top menu item. ommitted for brevity...)
</div>
</div>
You can find the complete source code for this demo in the JavaScript Tooltip download package.