Title: tooltip
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# tooltip

 *  [dmperlman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmperlman/)
 * (@dmperlman)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tooltip/)
 * I’d like to add to my site the ability to do “tooltips” when hovering the cursor
   over, say, a word that could use a little ‘popup’ definition, or something of
   that nature. I know how to do the <span> tag (at least I think so)…
 * <span tooltip=”tip….”>text</span>
 * But when I do that, nothing shows up when hovering the cursor – is there something
   I need to add to the index.php or other file in order to get tooltips to work?

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 *  Thread Starter [dmperlman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmperlman/)
 * (@dmperlman)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tooltip/#post-239189)
 * Actually, found a work around already… using “title” instead of “tooltip” works
   fine. maybe tooltip is browser specific?
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tooltip/#post-239195)
 * I believe “tooltip” is a specialized element in DHTML and XUL. It’s definitely
   never been a XHTML tag attribute.

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