tooltip

Start menu tooltip no longer says "Click here to begin".

You may be asking yourself what is so "super" about a tooltip.

The tooltip generally appears only after the mouse is held over the object for a certain amount of time.

In most browsers this attribute is displayed as a tooltip.

Tips, when selected, provide a short page of explanatory text, much like a tooltip.

If an option is grayed out because it cannot be used, the tooltip will explain why.

Personally, I hate seeing a tooltip that is in the way of what I'm trying to see or do.

A full reference can be hidden and displayed in the form of a tooltip on a reader's request.

Hovering the mouse over these pictures display the visitor's profile name as a tooltip.

A button often displays a tooltip when a user moves the pointer over it.

Hovering the cursor over the tab often displays a tooltip of the full title.

Demonstrations of tooltip usage are prevalent on web pages.

The tooltip serves as built-in documentation that briefly explains the purpose of the button.

Later, the tooltip has been removed.

Since 1998, some web browsers have added the ability to show a tooltip for a hyperlink before it is selected.

The code will create a small application with a button that features a tooltip and opens an alert box when pressed.

If a attribute is also specified, it will override the attribute for tooltip content.

This could e.g. trigger tooltip text display in newer operating systems.

Often some informative text about the link may pop up in a tooltip, which disappears when the user moves the pointer away.

File shortcuts can also store comments which are displayed as a tooltip when the mouse hovers over the shortcut.

Instead, it appears as the title text of the image, commonly displayed as a tooltip during a mouseover.

They are displayed as a dotted underline and by placing the cursor over it, a tooltip appears explaining the corresponding definition.

Each comic also has a tooltip, specified using the title attribute in HTML.

The specific message is "Click to activate this control", shown as a tooltip when the cursor is held over the embedded object.

Internet Explorer 7 and earlier render text in alt attributes as tooltip text, which is not standards-compliant.