Comments on: In web page design, what do you call the little window that pops up when you put your cursor over something?

By: Sweet Samara

Sweet Samara — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:10:59 +0000

You must add the "title" tag to a text link and if it’s an image you add the "alt" tag. So within your text link you would put:

With an image you’d use the following:

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By: AnalProgrammer

AnalProgrammer — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:36:59 +0000

Whilst it is not a full window that you are talking about it is still a pop-up.

I would call it a
pop-up text layer
because it will probably be created using a div tag.
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By: Steve D

Steve D — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:03:59 +0000

It’s often called a "tooltip." While there are more complex implementations using CSS, there’s actually a very simple way to accomplish it that works in most browsers. Just add a "title" property to your tag. You can do this for a link, a button, or an image, among others. Here’s an example for a link:

Some text

This will render as "Some text" with a link to somwebpage.com. When the user hovers over the link, a tooltip will pop up that says "Here’s where the tooltip text goes."

I hope this helps.
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