How is Greatist Doing This?

[Kevin]

Check out this article: http://greatist.com/grow/everything-know-about-massage-wrong

See those little blue tags? Roll over them, you'll get the source for whatever they're referencing.

I'd like to do this on some of my properties but have no clue how to. Any ideas?

 

[red_devil010]

@Kevin - a quick look at the code and g search, i think they may be using this: http://qtip2.com/demos

qtip2. The site referenced above gives source, etc.

 

[Kevin]

Aww hell yeah. Thanks man, I for some reason thought that was some hand-coded stuff Greatist was doing themselves.

I like the potential application here, if you have a content site that has a lot of sourcing - instead of blowing out the footer area of the post with a list of links, you can just do in-context sourcing which will still be indexed but not clutter the footer and distract from your CTAs.

 

[red_devil010]

i think this way of doing citations is clean and crisp, i like them a lot. im going to try to implement into one of my sites too now that i see the implementation.