Questions tagged [tooltips]
Tooltips are the little blurbs that pop up when you hover over an element on a web page. They are typically taken from an element's "title" attribute.
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Tooltips on the /show-flags page for declined flags without a custom message show "StackOverflow.StackHtmlContent"
While searching for a declined flag with an apostrophe in the declining text, to test for this character-encoding bug (which, yes, is still an issue), I checked what the tooltip on the /show-flags ...
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Show to what site the reputation belongs when hovering over the reputation counter on the top bar
I recently had a sinking feeling in my gut: my reputation had dropped by 1/3! Serves me right for posting crappy questions. But wait, it turns out that number is referring to each individual Stack ...
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Is "required" tooltip on required fields legend required?
Recently the new "required" icon (a red star symbol) was added next to Title, Body, Tags words on Ask New Question page around all SE network. I think it's a good change for site UX. But do ...
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Remove the 'resetting any rude or abusive flags' note from the rollback tooltip
The tooltip for the rollback button in a revision history is: sets the current revision to this version of the post, resetting any "rude or abusive" flags However, the 'resetting of red ...
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Why are you telling me to undo my vote when my vote is locked in?
When I hover over the upvote or downvote arrows on a post where I have voted, I see the following tooltip "this answer is useful (click again to undo)". I never really noticed the phrase &...
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Edge point for a diamond used as a popover arrow in tooltips should be slightly shifted
Recently I learned that a diamond shape is used for imitation of tooltip popover arrow: Animation was made on Suspicious voting tools page Looks like that to make an imitation more natural the edge ...
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Remove hover text [tooltips] from 'vote' 'answer' and 'views'
Unless I'm missing something, there seems little point in having hover text for the three elements to the left of every question, as they simply repeat exactly what the element already says. There is ...
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Make tooltip text ending on user tab sorting order consistent. Only the "participation" tab contains dot at the end
Tooltip for "participation" tab contains the . at the end, but there's no dot for all other tabs: I suggest to remove it here as well. Adding the dot to the all other instead I can't ...
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