Title: Image tooltip
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Image tooltip

 *  [erzor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erzor/)
 * (@erzor)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-tooltip-1/)
 * I’m trying to find a way to show a box with text on mouse over image. I only 
   need this on a few thumbnail in my sidebar.
 * Does anyone know a plugin that would do that / or any other way?
 * Thanks a lot.

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-tooltip-1/#post-2283560)
 * That’s commonly done with the title tag. When you insert an image using WordPress
   you’ll get a field called Title. Put your “tooltip” text there and it’ll show
   up when you mouse over it.
 * If you’re hard-coding your sidebar or entering the code via a text widget, the
   code is something like:
 * `<img src="path/to/yourfile.jpg" title="This is the text I want to display as
   a tooltip" height="50" width="50" alt="your alt text" />`
 *  Thread Starter [erzor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erzor/)
 * (@erzor)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-tooltip-1/#post-2283566)
 * I know that, but I want something more visible – based on jquery or similar, 
   you know what I mean?
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-tooltip-1/#post-2283567)
 * Well unless you tell us what you don’t want, I can’t read your mind. 😉
 * I plugged jQuery tooltip into the plug-in repository and quite a few options 
   came up – why not try a few and see which one you like:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=jquery+tooltip&sort=](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=jquery+tooltip&sort=)
 *  [zab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zab42/)
 * (@zab42)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-tooltip-1/#post-2283745)
 * Hey, am looking for something kinda similar. I have made a .png of an info text
   box and I want to have that box appear when I mouse over an image I have inserted
   in a page. Can you direct me to documentation on that? Thank you very much.

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## Tags

 * [hover](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hover/)
 * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/)
 * [mouseover](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mouseover/)
 * [rollover](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rollover/)

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 * Last reply from: [zab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zab42/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-tooltip-1/#post-2283745)
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