Title: Tooltip
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Tooltip

 *  Resolved [mistermarc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mistermarc/)
 * (@mistermarc)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tooltip-1/)
 * Hi Tobias!
 * I love your plugin! Many thanks for all your work!!
 * I just have a quick question:
 * How can I add a “tooltip” to my tables.
 * I have a “feature comparison table” where I would like descriptive text to show-
   up whenever a user hovers over certain cells.
 * I could not find this question answered in any of the discussions so I hope you
   don’t mind me asking.
 * Many thanks.
 * Marc
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tooltip-1/#post-3546339)
 * Hi Marc,
 * thanks for your question.
 * Small tooltips (like those usually small yellow ones that you can see when moving
   the mouse over an image on many websites), can be achieved by wrapping the element
   that shall have that tooltip with a span element that has a “title”, like this:
 *     ```
       <span title="This is the text of the tooltip">This is the regular text
       that gets a tooltip.</span>
       ```
   
 * If you want tooltips that are styled differently, you’ll need to use another 
   plugin for this, that e.g. adds tooltips via JavaScript. Unfortunately, I don’t
   have any experience with such plugins and can’t recommend one 🙁
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  [SoftDux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/softdux/)
 * (@softdux)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tooltip-1/#post-3546630)
 * If anyone know’s how to successfully get a nice looking (i.e. JS or AJAX type)
   tooltip to work with Tablepress, please let me know?
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tooltip-1/#post-3546631)
 * Hi,
 * as mentioned above, you’ll basically just need to find a plugin that adds Tooltips
   in general. Adding those to a TablePress table is then no real problem.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  [SoftDux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/softdux/)
 * (@softdux)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tooltip-1/#post-3546632)
 * I actually tried a few different tooltip plugins already, which work great in
   normal content but not inside the tables
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tooltip-1/#post-3546633)
 * Hi,
 * can you explain how or what is not working in tables? Can you post a link to 
   a table where the tooltips are not working, and describe how you added them to
   the table?
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  [SoftDux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/softdux/)
 * (@softdux)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tooltip-1/#post-3546635)
 * Well, the tooltip plugins that I tried out all have some shortcode that you insert
   into page or post content, but I just found one which works fine. “Easy Tooltip”.
 * you install it, and then add the tooltip as such:
 * >  [tooltip title=”Info” content=”This is the amount of data transfer your account
   > has, for website and email traffic per month. Extra usage will be billed for
   > at the end of the month. ” type=”info” ]Bandwidth[/tooltip]
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tooltip-1/#post-3546636)
 * Hi,
 * awesome! That’s great information! Thanks for sharing that!
    For everyone who
   is interested, the plugin is at [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-tooltip/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-tooltip/)
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias

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