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With a pointer in the right direction from Richard D. Worth it seems that the tooltips require a title tag even if you're supplying your own content.  The following doesn't work because #dom_tip doesn't have a title attribute:

html:

1. <p>I'm going to show you some html content from a hidden div within the dom right <span id="dom_tip" class="highlight">here</span>.
2. </p>
3. <div class="hide" id="dom_tip_info">
4.       <p>This tooltip contains html from a dom element div&gt;#dom_tip_info</p>
5. </div>

js:

1. $('#dom_tip').tooltip({
2.     content: function() {return $('#dom_tip_info').html();}
   
3. });

It does work with the following:
<span id="dom_tip" class="highlight" title>here</span>

Is there a reason why a title attribute has to be present?  I've not contributed to the jQuery project before but I'm happy to make a change and push it up, what's the usual resolution (assuming a change is required)?

A jsFiddle with my demo is: http://jsfiddle.net/i_woody/89E62/5

Background: I've been testing the jQuery UI Tooltips to see if I can make use of them in a work project to replace the qTip (v1) tooltips.