Template talk:Tooltip

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This is a tooltip which does not wrap correctly?

In FireFox 1,5 the tooltip is just short. In IE6 the tooltip is long.

Well in Safari it wraps beautifully: only to go away before you have time to finish reading it! —Ian Spackman 19:58, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Seems to work in ie6 for me just fine. My buddy is a mediawiki admin and he would love this thing. Is this supported in all versions? ClintonKu (talk) 21:15, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

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Y Done Harryboyles 17:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Merge with {{abbr}}

This template does the same as {{abbr}}, but without using the HTML tag <abbr> or the class abbr. — Dispenser 14:35, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Why not make this more like a navigation popup?

Why not make this more like a navigation popup? Then we could put links in it too. Lemmiwinks2 (talk) 03:41, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups. This feature must be installed by the user, and requires that their browser has JavaScript support enabled. – Wbm1058 (talk) 13:36, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Redirects for deletion.

I have started a redirects for deletion discussion. If someone could replace the page with {{subst:rfd|content=#REDIRECT [[Template:Abbr]] {{R from merge}}}}, that would be appreciated. E to the Pi times i (talk | contribs) 04:08, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

 Done Galobtter (pingó mió) 12:24, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 1 January 2021

Update TfD template, as I re-listed the discussion to 1 January. –Piranha249 21:40, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: I've undone the relist; it's already been relisted twice. Primefac (talk) 21:44, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 27 January 2021

This template was approved for a merger with Template:Hover title earlier this month, but nothing has come of the effort since then. –Piranha249 (Discuss with me) 18:17, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

This isn't an edit request. Template mergers sometimes take time. Please be patient. Primefac (talk) 18:27, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Why does our documentation flout the rules?

I'm puzzled that the documentation contains a warning which is viewed as serious enough that it deserves all bold:

Please note: Do not use {{abbr}} or <abbr> to mark up material other than abbreviations (including acronyms). Using it to generate tooltips elsewhere is a misuse of the underlying HTML and causes accessibility problems. For general-purpose tooltips, use {{tooltip}} instead.

Then goes on to give a usage example which is a formula not an abbreviation, and that example uses {{abbr}} rather than {{tooltip}}.

I recognize that this classic formula includes some abbreviations, but I don't think combining abbreviations into a formula makes it an abbreviation. I'm not fully grasping why {{abbr}} creates an accessibility problem while {{tooltip}} does not, but unless I'm missing something, if we strongly urge editors to use tooltips for things other than abbreviations shouldn't we use tooltip in the documentation? Am I missing something?--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:45, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: ... I'm missing something ... I'm not sure what's going on here, but I've highlighted quoted text to make it clear what you are talking about. Feel free to wrap the said warning into a {{notice}} template to make it more readable. On the other side, I think it's legit to avoid using tooltips. It certainly would cause readability issues on different devices. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 18:55, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Alexander Davronov, I get that pop-ups might create problems related to accessibility (and I don't know this for certain, it just sounds plausible), but I'm struggling to understand why a popup created by tooltips is problematic but a pop up created by abbr is not a problem. (thanks for the highlighting to clarify what I am talking about.) S Philbrick(Talk) 20:05, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: I agree that it sounds plausable. Probably underlaying html tags and scripts cause issues with accessibility on devices not fully supporting html/js/css but I'm confused too here tbh. Cheers. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 20:11, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Dotted not working in new vector

The css class explain used by this template is not supported in new vector and hence tooltips are never dotted in that skin. This can be solved by moving the doting to template styles as I've done at Template:Tooltip/sandbox. I would like to have someone more experienced have a look at it before implementing though. Thanks to Izno for helping out at discord full credits for anything clever I say to them. --Trialpears (talk) 16:47, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Looks fine. Izno (talk) 17:34, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Now implemented. --Trialpears (talk) 12:41, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) § Italics in a tooltip

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) § Italics in a tooltip. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:02, 17 October 2021 (UTC)