Dojo And Javascript: Lightweight Tooltip In Onclick On Anchor Tab

I have a dojo datagrid and I am using a formatter that puts, among other things, link in the cell. The formatter looks like this: var descshort = value[1].substring(0,220); return

Solution 1:

I was able to call a function for a dojo dialog and pass the values as arguments to the dojo dialog! Also it took me a while to realize that in the formatter I need to use \ to escape some of the ' characters that are used to build the returned string while inserting values as arguments.

elliotDialog = new dijit.Dialog({
  title: "My Dialog",
  content: "test content",
  style: "width: 450px"
});

showDesc = function(layer, layer2){
 // set the content of the dialog:
elliotDialog.set("title", layer2);
 elliotDialog.set("content", layer);
 elliotDialog.show();
};

The onclick in the formatter looks like this:

onclick="showDesc(\'' + value[1] + '\',\'' + value[0] + '\');return false;"