How To Position An Element So That It Does Not Flow Off The Visible Screen

I am creating pseudo-tooltips on a page that has a lot of 'a' and 'span' elements that have these tips associated with them. Everything in the creation of the element is fine, and

Solution 1:

Check out the jQuery UI position plugin. It doesn't require the jQuery UI core and is slated to become a jQuery core plugin.

More Documentation: http://jqueryui.pbworks.com/Position