# qTip2/qTip2

qTip2 - Pretty powerful tooltips

Repository: https://github.com/qTip2/qTip2
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/qtip2
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-06-14T10:23:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5894, "days_push": 2271, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1971, forks 459 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:00.895581+00:00)

## What it is
qTip2 is a feature-rich tooltip plugin for jQuery, offering speech bubble tips, imagemap support, and extensive styling options. It is the second generation of the qTip library and is distributed under the MIT license.

## Use cases
- add tooltips to elements on a jQuery website
- show speech bubble style tips on hover
- display tooltips over image map areas
- customize tooltip position, style, and content
- add rich tooltips to legacy jQuery apps

## When to choose
- you maintain an existing jQuery codebase that already uses qTip or qTip2
- you need a mature, MIT-licensed jQuery tooltip plugin with speech bubble tips and imagemap support

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project without jQuery
- you need active maintenance, support, or new features
- you need a framework-agnostic or modern tooltip solution

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, tooltips, speech-bubble-tips, unmaintained, nodejs

## Member repositories
- qTip2/qTip2 (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:00.895581+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:05:05.925324+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/qTip2/qTip2 (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:00.895581+00:00, sha 93065055c171)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/qtip2 (fetched 2026-08-29T10:44:54.730267+00:00, sha 0c918ed8f167)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.