Chapter Ten. Tooltips
Tooltips are used to present content “on demand” in an interface—typically, secondary content like a simple text description for an icon button, detail for a data point on a chart, or helpful field-level instruction in a form—so that users can gain greater context without having to interrupt what they’re reading or doing. Tooltip content generally displays as a small overlay that appears when the user places their cursor over an element.
Most browsers include a standard tooltip feature by default: any content in a title attribute assigned to an HTML tag will render as a tooltip when the user hovers the cursor over an element for about a second. However, these standard browser tooltips have a fixed appearance (usually a ...
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