How can one implement the functionality present in www.odesk.com

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When you log into oDesk.com, when the skill set is mouse pointed. A description of the skill set from wikipedia, and other sources shows up.

for example, when php is mouse pointed, wikipedia definition of php is shown.

Whats the technique called, and how can one implement it.

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Posted 19-Sep-13 10:18am

Pradeep Bolleddula

Updated 19-Sep-13 10:25am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-19T11:07:00

It's hard to find the functionality you describe on odesk.com. I think what you are trying to get is the tooltip. Here is one of the possible implementations (jQuery):
http://jqueryui.com/tooltip/[^].

If you need to learn jQuery (highly recommended), please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery[^],
http://jquery.com/[^],
http://learn.jquery.com/[^],
http://learn.jquery.com/using-jquery-core/[^],
http://learn.jquery.com/about-jquery/how-jquery-works/[^] (start from here).

—SA