Title: Hover descriptions
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Hover descriptions

 *  [skamaria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skamaria/)
 * (@skamaria)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hover-descriptions/)
 * Is it possible to have description for links only show via hover? Right now hovering
   over a link displays the link name, I want it to display the link description
   but cannot figure out how to make this happen.
 * Many thanks for any help!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-library/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-library/)

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 *  [yezzz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yezzz/)
 * (@yezzz)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hover-descriptions/#post-3583605)
 * I’ve been testing this with category descriptions using CSS hover and clip:rect
   although there’s probably better methods (my CSS knowledge is limited).
 * If you have “show category description” enabled and “hide category names” DISabled
   in the link element settings, then you can try with this CSS:
 *     ```
       .linklistcatnamedesc {
              /*display:block;*/
              position: absolute;
              clip:rect(0px,20px,15px,0px); //set 2nd and 3rd value for right and bottom clipping;
              margin-left: 10px;
       }
   
       .linklistcatnamedesc:hover{
             /*display: block;*/
             /*position:relative;*/
             /* background-color:yellow; */
             clip:auto;
             margin-left: 10px;
         }
       ```
   
 * You can even put in an image, eg a help icon:
 *     ```
       .linklistcatnamedesc:before {
            content:url(http://example.com/image.png);
       padding-right: 5px;
       }
       ```
   
 * If you want to use this with the link description you probably need to set it
   to display as a table, then assign a class to the description, and add the above
   CSS to the stylesheet.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hover-descriptions/#post-3583605)
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