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How does Stack Overflow display tooltip for the questions?

Answer 1

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It is just a title attribute on the hyperlink, plain and simple.

<a href="..." title="The value is approximately
        3.14159265
    but for simplicity you can always round it
    to exactly 3.0">What is the value of Pi?</a>

In IE, Chrome & Safari, it honors the line breaks a bit more strictly than say Firefox or Opera.

scunliffe 2010-07-23 16:12:14

Title attribute is correct

Jack Marchetti 2010-07-23 16:17:26

I knew title attirbute, problem was the linebreaks on FF. How to satisfy FF and Opera?

San 2010-07-23 16:35:07

There isn't much you can do (re:Firefox) the value used to be truncated at a very short length (IIRC something like 32 chars) and it took years to get Mozilla to increase it. I've seen several jQuery and similar plugins that will take the title attribute, and hook in some magic to overlay a div with the formatted content of the title attribute.

scunliffe 2010-07-23 16:52:15

I came through those kind of jQuery code ideas. But, when I use those, size of file becomes double. :-( So, I was wondering was there any simple solutions or minimal code..

San 2010-07-23 17:02:04

Do you have jQuery or a similar library already installed? if so, a simple tooltip would likely be possible w/o inserting a whole plugin.

scunliffe 2010-07-23 17:29:50

Yes, I use jquery. How to achieve a simple tooltip?

San 2010-07-24 08:23:01

Seems like SO uses the same method which works fine on IE and Chrome but FF. Thanks, scunliffe!

San 2010-07-24 08:37:17

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Sergey Osypchuk 2010-07-23 16:13:39

It can. But, not all the browsers display it. Tried the same on FF. No linebreak at all! I believe it just works on IE only. I want FF and Chrome too.

San 2010-07-23 16:18:23

I am using chrome and it has line breaks for me....

Sergey Osypchuk 2010-07-23 16:20:58

Yes, it does on chrome. Thanks, Sergey! Is there any solution for FF?

San 2010-07-23 16:32:29

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