Tooltip

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A web browser tooltip displayed for a hyperlink.
A web browser tooltip displayed for a hyperlink.

The tooltip is a common graphical user interface element. It is used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over an item, without clicking it, and a small box appears with supplementary information regarding the item being hovered over.

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A common variant, especially in older software, is displaying a description of the tool in a status bar, but such descriptions are not usually called tooltips. Another system, on the Macintosh computer, that aims to solve the same problem, but in a slightly different way, is balloon help. Another term for tooltip, used in Microsoft end-user documentation, is “ScreenTip”.

Demonstrations of tooltip usage are prevalent on Web pages. Many graphical Web browsers display the title attribute of an HTML element as a tooltip when a user hovers the mouse cursor over that element; in such a browser you should be able to hover over Wikipedia images and hyperlinks and see a tooltip appear. Some browsers, notably Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, will also display the alt attribute of an image as a tooltip in the same manner; if a title attribute is also specified, it will override the alt attribute for tooltip content, however. Note that there is some debate[citation needed] over whether this latter usage (alternate text as a tooltip) is proper behavior.

The S-phrases listed at List of S-phrases demonstrate tooltip use. Some copied here:

  • (S1): Keep locked up
  • (S2): Keep out of the reach of children
  • S3: Keep in a cool place
  • S4: Keep away from living quarters

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