org.jfree.chart.imagemap
Interface ToolTipTagFragmentGenerator

All Known Implementing Classes:

DynamicDriveToolTipTagFragmentGenerator, OverLIBToolTipTagFragmentGenerator, StandardToolTipTagFragmentGenerator

public interface ToolTipTagFragmentGenerator

Interface for generating the tooltip fragment of an HTML image map area tag. The fragment should be XHTML 1.0 compliant.

Method Summary

java.lang.String

generateToolTipFragment(java.lang.String toolTipText) Generates a tooltip string to go in an HTML image map.

Method Detail

generateToolTipFragment

java.lang.String generateToolTipFragment(java.lang.String toolTipText)

Generates a tooltip string to go in an HTML image map. To allow for varying standards compliance among browsers, this method is expected to return an 'alt' attribute IN ADDITION TO whatever it does to create the tooltip (often a 'title' attribute).

Note that the toolTipText may have been generated from user-defined data, so care should be taken to filter/escape any characters that may corrupt the HTML tag.

Parameters:

toolTipText - the tooltip.

Returns:

The formatted HTML area tag attribute(s).