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Thank you for the quick answer. Unfortunatly I am not looking for the value of the tooltip but for the object the tooltip belongs to. (As I read my question again I have to admit, that it was not clear enough.)

My intention is to close the last opened tooltip manually. As far as I can see jQueryUI-tooltips opens by two events: mouseover and (for accessiblity-reasons) focusin. So it could be possible that a user opens  a tooltip by a tabstop (which stays open until the html-object lost its focus) and then he opens another tooltip by a mouseover. The result are two opened tooltips at the same time. To avoid that, I want to close the last opened tooltip before opening another one.

The idea was something like this:

1. var globalVariable = false;

2.   $(document).tooltip({
   

3.         open: function(event, ui){

4.               globalVariable.tooltip('close'); // the last one

5.               globalVariable = HERE-IS-THE-PROBLEME; // the active one (something like „this“)

6. }});

The alternative would be to close all tooltips before opening a new one.

I have read it in the jQueryUI-api-doc, but obviously haven't understood it.

open( event, ui ) Type: tooltipopen

Triggered when a tooltip is shown, triggered on focusin or mouseover .

• event
       Type: Event
• ui
       Type: Object
  •      tooltip
              Type: jQuery
             The generated tooltip element.
    

In the future I should watch more carefully at "Type: jQuery".

Many thanx.
Hasenpfote