Title: Edit default tooltip styles
Last modified: March 21, 2018

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# Edit default tooltip styles

 *  Resolved [delifort](https://wordpress.org/support/users/delifort/)
 * (@delifort)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-default-tooltip-styles/)
 * Hello,
 * I want to edit the looks of the word that contains a tooltip link (make it blue
   instead of red, for example).
    Also, I want to style the actual tooltip: change
   the font size, and most importantly, remove that header title that is shown above
   the actual tips. I mostly use it for tooltips rather than glossary tips (to include
   references, for example), and having every tip repeating the linking words is
   just weird.
 * Refer to image for details:
    [Image](https://pp.userapi.com/c847018/v847018361/544d/VTaLm_E3WKk.jpg)
 * I can certainly override the default looks using “Custom CSS plugin”, but I was
   thinking that maybe there’s a neater way to do it. Maybe I could edit the actual
   plugin files somewhere, or maybe that Theme Editor that I posted my other question
   about is responsible for styling tooltips.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  Plugin Author [Gerkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerkin/)
 * (@gerkin)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-default-tooltip-styles/#post-10101247)
 * Hi,
 * About editing trigger link styling, you can refer to the [manual page](https://www.gerkindevelopment.net/en/portfolio/ithoughts-tooltip-glossary/#Customize_tooltip_links).
   Yeah, some things (like class names) are a bit outdated, so here are the selectors
   you’ll use to style a _normal_ (not _glossary_) tooltip:
 *     ```
       .itg-tooltip  { } /* for inline tooltip container */
       .itg-tooltip  > a { } /* for inline tooltip links *
       ```
   
 * As wrote in the manual, I highly recommend you to do this override in you [child theme](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes).
 * About styling the tooltip itself, I posted an answer on your question related
   to the [theme editor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-editor-whats-it-for/),
   which is built for that.
 * > **Just a note about why the documentation is a bit outdated:**: A major update
   > is in preparation, that will change most of those points. Unfortunately, I 
   > don’t have the time yet to release that update, because some more work is still
   > needed. Editing the manual now would take me even more time, and I’ll need 
   > to update it again when the next version will be shipped. So, yeah, sorry about
   > that…
 *  Thread Starter [delifort](https://wordpress.org/support/users/delifort/)
 * (@delifort)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-default-tooltip-styles/#post-10111067)
 * Thanks so much.
 * I just overrode “.itg-tooltip > a” in Simple Custom CSS plugin, and as for the
   actual tooltip style – Theme Editor works just fine. So yeah, in the end – total
   control over appearance of tooltips and links.
 * P.S. If you override “.itg-tooltip > a” styles in Simple Custom CSS plugin, don’t
   forget the !important keyword next to each CSS property that you override, otherwise
   it won’t be forwarded. Just google “!important” if you don’t know how it works.
 * Just telling all this as maybe someone else might find it useful.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by [delifort](https://wordpress.org/support/users/delifort/).

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 * Last reply from: [delifort](https://wordpress.org/support/users/delifort/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-default-tooltip-styles/#post-10111067)
 * Status: resolved