title: How can I programmatically open the tooltip of a leaflet marker?
body: <p>I am using leaflet and I have a few markers. If I hover on the marker icon its tooltip automatically opens, showing the related data. I have my markers stored inside a variable called <code>woMarkers</code> and everything works using it except this feature. If I do something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(woMarkers[0]._icon).hover();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>then nothing happens, no error and the tooltip does not open. These are the options I am using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        var woOptions = {
              fitBounds: true,
              enableLandmarkLink: false,
              reDrawBounds: true,
              showControls: true,
              getName: function(record) {
                  return record[('Job Number' in record ? 'Job Number' : 'Name')];
              },
              markerIconTemplate: '&lt;div class="fi-marker-container %6" data-workorder="%3"&gt;&lt;a class="icon" style="color: %4;"&gt;%1%2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fi-marker-pointer-container"&gt;&lt;div class="fi-marker-pointer %6"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;',
              markerSelection: true,
              displayLabels: mapLabels,
              additionalMarkerMarkup: {
                  column: 'Status', /* Display additional Marker html pending on a column value */
                  values: {
                      '1': '&lt;img class="top-right-icon" src="/Images/Icons/Help.png" /&gt;',
                      '2': '&lt;img class="top-right-icon" src="/Images/Icons/CheckCircle.png" /&gt;',
                      '3': '&lt;img class="top-right-icon" src="/Images/Icons/CheckCircle.png" /&gt;',
                      '4': '&lt;img class="top-right-icon" src="/Images/Icons/CheckCircle.png" /&gt;',
                      '5': '&lt;img class="top-right-icon" src="/Images/Icons/Warning.png" /&gt;'
                  },
                  columns: ["Workorder #"]
              },
              layer: new L.LayerGroup()
          };
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So, my question is as follows: If I have a marker object, how can I programmatically open its tooltip?</p>