With this:

<rich:toolTip for="myLink" direction="bottom-left" showEvent="onclick" hideEvent="onsubmit" verticalOffset="8">

the hideEvent with onsubmit calls the showEvent indirectly, because the onsubmit can only be called by a onclick-event.

For example: I have a "close"-button inside my tooltip:

<rich:toolTip id="myToolTip" showEvent="onclick">

<a4j:commandLink id="close" value="close ToolTip" reRender="..">
<rich:componentControl for="myToolTip" attachTo="close" operation="hide,disable" event="onclick"/>
</a4j:commandLink>
</rich:toolTip>

When I click the commandLink inside the toolTip,
then a onclick-event occurs because of my onsubmit-event and the tooltip is shown again (showEvent=onclick). My tooltip vanishes AFTER the showEvent. How can I avoid this?

Okay, I guess, I need something like:

<rich:toolTip .. onshow="if not hide then show" disable" showEvent="onclick" hideEvent="onclick">


If the hideEvent (which is triggered also by onclick) is called,
then the onshow-function should proof,
if the hideEvent was triggered, if so, then do not show the tooltip.

But I dont know, what should I insert into onshow?