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In Internet Explorer 11, holding the mouse over a tag of a question used to bring up a tooltip with a short description of the tag. Now it only shows "Show questions tagged -tag-".

Where has this useful tooltip gone? Can we have it back in IE please?

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    If I'm looking at a tag [foo] that is located under a question, and I point my mouse at the [foo] tag, I get the tag description. I only see what you're describing when I point at a tag that is in the right sidebar under "related tags".
    – Jeff Zeitlin
    Feb 8, 2018 at 12:54
  • I get it on the questions list page, e.g. stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c. I also get it on the question detail page.
    – Paul Ogilvie
    Feb 8, 2018 at 13:00
  • Can't reproduce beyond my description on Chrome 64/Win7.
    – Jeff Zeitlin
    Feb 8, 2018 at 13:03
  • Also see what you describe under "favorite tags" in right sidebar. However, when I look at right sidebar under "Questions Tagged...", I get the tag description.
    – Jeff Zeitlin
    Feb 8, 2018 at 13:05
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    I can repro on IE11/Win10. It looks like that an eventlistener didn't get registered. I can't verify yet if this is related but I doubt it is a coincidence.
    – rene
    Feb 8, 2018 at 13:06
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    STOP THE PRESSES - reproduced in Win7/IE11. I suspect that it's an HTML5 feature that's not properly supported by IE, which is notorious for not conforming to standards. MS has decommitted from IE, and recommends using Windows 10 with Edge.
    – Jeff Zeitlin
    Feb 8, 2018 at 13:07
  • @JeffZeitlin, that is great. But they can hardly expect me to buy a new machine... But the tag tooltip worked fine. Has something changed on Stack Exchange?
    – Paul Ogilvie
    Feb 8, 2018 at 13:14
  • has something changed ... yes, the site will get a responsive layout so a lot of stuff, both html structure as CSS, needs a major overhaul. So far the comment section has been un-tabled but I wouldn't be surprised if that already caused unwanted side-effects. One of which you might experience first hand right now.
    – rene
    Feb 8, 2018 at 13:44
  • It works fine in Chrome, Edge and Firefox (image), but I can reproduce it in Internet Explorer (image).
    – Donald Duck
    Feb 8, 2018 at 13:47
  • Can't reproduce on Edge.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Feb 8, 2018 at 13:48
  • @Ano well, Edge isn't IE... they finally made something different.
    – Shadow Wizard Strikes Back
    Feb 9, 2018 at 23:10

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This will be fixed in the next build.

This was a slightly different manifestation of the same bug in Cannot start bounty using IE 11.

Right before the code executed that show user messages and wires up user menus, tag preferences, and keyboard shortcuts, we performed a check, if (CSS.supports). Unfortunately, not only does CSS.supports not exist in IE 11, neither does CSS, so we got an error checking a property on undefined.

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  • From iOS to IE. Man, I don't envy you. Thanks for the fix!
    – Shadow Wizard Strikes Back
    Feb 13, 2018 at 22:42
  • Thanks Brian. Glad to get it back :-)
    – Paul Ogilvie
    Feb 14, 2018 at 11:21
  • Solved! The tag tooltip is back. Many thanks!
    – Paul Ogilvie
    Feb 15, 2018 at 13:22

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