How to change ExtJS ToolTip text in runtime?

Question

According to number of questions and articles the simple tip.html = 'new value'; should work but for some reasons it's not the case for me.

Here I have created a demo to demonstrate that tip.html modification doesn't change tip's body after it was rendered once:

Steps to reproduce:

Scenario 1:

Scenario 2:

What am I missing? How would one change it in runtime (Scenario 1)?

Evan Trimboli · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-17 22:28:06Z

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You can't just set a property, once the component is created you need to call a method so it actually updates the underlying DOM:

tip.update('new');

answered Jul 17 '13 at 22:28

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