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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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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Popover visibility issue in the stacks editor
In the Stacks editor, the popover on top becomes invisible when hovering over the tools icon, significantly when the editor menu block extends to the end of the page.
Screenshot for reference:
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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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Partially hidden tooltip on tag synonym page
When you're a moderator, the column with the awkwardly designed voting buttons on the tag synonyms page is hidden, because ♦ moderators don't need to vote on them; they can simply approve them. ...
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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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In election primaries, the voting breakdown tooltip misidentifies election nominations as "questions"
Tooltip on expanded votes on nomination post says the following:
But this nomination notice is not a question!
As far as I see in translation data base this is the one source string (with plural ...
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Poor alignment of popover arrow in Inbox filter popup
The inbox filter popup has poor alignment for the popover arrow/ ^-mark relative to the popup rectangle.
In Unread mode even the border line looks broken:
Zoomed in:
Compare with unread popup on ...
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Inconsistent vertical spacing to tooltip on impact block [duplicate]
There's an inconsistency with vectical space for tooltips in impact block of profile page:
Helpful flags tooltip looks generally correct:
But others have much more vertical space as expected between ...
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Pluralization issue in the Summary tab badge count's tooltip
There is an issue with pluralization in the badge count tooltip in the Summary tab > "Accounts" section.
The tooltip says,
1 gold badges
Can this be fixed?
Screenshot for reference:
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Wrong tooltip 'question viewed by' for answer flags in the flag dashboard
The flag dashboard for ♦ moderators contains a (sometimes) helpful list of moderators / staff who visited the flagged post. This information is stored separately for each post; visiting a flagged ...
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Can the tool tip for the close votes review number be changed to denote the amount of votes and the amount of flags?
I recently asked this question where I noticed that the review item had a "(5)" for the number of "votes" it received to be closed. It confused me, since 5 votes on Arqade is what ...
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Minor alignment issue in Activity page Impact section's tooltip
There is an alignment issue in the Activity page Impact section's tooltip for the "people reached" and "votes cast" captions.
The tooltip is displayed correctly for the "...
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Plurals bug in answer-question tooltip of tags page of user profile
The tooltip showing the score in the tags page of the user profile has the following two sentences in plural even if you've only made 1 post
1 non-wiki answers
1 non-wiki questions
See the ...
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Incorrect information in tooltip for Community wiki posts on the home page
When hovering over the "Community wiki" tooltip for a CW post from the home page, or questions page, e.g. this page, it shows
This post is community owned as of Jan 1, 0001 at 0:00. Votes ...
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Some tooltips are dark and lost readability
Some tooltips recently changed to having a dark background with white letters (this happens both on SO where I use dark theme and on MSE where dark theme isn't available). I think this happened after ...
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The [un-]bookmark and "Unfollow" tooltips for deleted posts are barely visible
In light of some recent design changes regarding the Following and Bookmarks tabs, for questions/answers which have not been deleted, the [un-]bookmark and "Unfollow" tooltips show just fine:...
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Question summary tooltip shows incorrect text when a question has only one (accepted) answer
Currently, this is the tooltip you see when hovering over the green box in the question summary:
one of the answers was accepted as the correct answer
When there is only one answer (which is ...
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"A list of all { } Stack Exchange sites" tooltip shows a different number on the chat page
Hovering over the rightmost icon on the top nav on the main or on the site-meta (as well as Meta SE), shows that there are 179 sites on the network currently:
But hovering over the Stack Exchange ...
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The date overflows the reputation graph's tooltip bounds [closed]
In the reputation subtab on the Activity page, in the graph view, there's a bug:
The year (e.g., 2022) does not fit in the tooltip (shown when you hover over a bar on the graph).
I'm using Chrome, ...
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Inconsistent whitespace between statistics and tooltips in the Impact summary [duplicate]
On the Activity page, in the Summary subtab, there seems to be an inconsistency in the amount of whitespace between the statistics and tooltips in the Impact summary. The spacing is fine between the &...
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Inconsistent tooltips for the post's score on flag history page between questions and answers
On the flag history page, each post shown has its score as a number on the left-hand side. Hovering over this brings up a tooltip. However, whether the number itself is included in said hovertext ...
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Vote count tooltip has too much margin - "View upvote and downvote totals."
There's too much margin on the right of the vote count tooltip that reads "View upvote and downvote totals."
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Tooltip for Talkative/Outspoken badge indicators in moderator dashboard not capitalized
The moderator dashboard has two indicators, a bronze and a silver dot, which are shown if the moderator has the Talkative resp. Outspoken badge. People have questioned their usefulness before (1, 2), ...
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Tooltip for "Application" page
As far as I see only the "Application" item has tooltip in Settings section of profile page:
Should it be removed? Or add tooltips for the rest items?
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Tooltip text is lengthier than its background [duplicate]
Under the summary section of the activity page, the tooltip for one of the gear icons is messed up. The text ("Choose between tracking your next privilege and a tag badge") is lengthier than ...
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Hover text for suggested edit up/downvote buttons is incorrect
When I made a suggested edit to an answer on Travel SE, I noticed that the hover text for the up/downvote buttons is the one for questions, not answers. See attached picture.
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Vote-totals tooltip says moderator nominations are questions, on the Primary election-phase tab
On the Primary tab of the 2021 Stack Overflow election, the "vote totals" tooltip says candidate nominations are questions:
Could we change that to say something like:
to be more accurate, ...
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How to get hover information on mobile, e.g. details of a tag
On Desktop you can hover your mouse over a tag and it shows how many watchers and how many questions where asked.
Example:
faq has 120 watchers and 156 questions
On mobile, since you can't hover, how ...
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Add a tooltip for "Improve this question/answer"
When logged out/anonymous, the "Edit" link is replaced by "Improve this question/answer" (depending on post type):
While there is a tooltip for the regular "Edit" link (&...
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StackApps thumbnail tooltips show HTML encoded titles
When hovering over a thumbnail, a tooltip appears showing the title of the question. However, if the title contains special characters, the tooltip displays the HTML entities instead:
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Please revisit the downvote/upvote tooltips on meta sites
The tooltips on all sites, including Meta sites, currently read as follows:
Question upvote: "This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear"
Question downvote: "This ...
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Pluralization issue in the review queue - received vote count tooltip
There is a pluralization issue in the review queue - received vote count tooltip. For the 1 vote, it is displayed as 1 votes
This community-specific close reason received 1 votes
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Safari showing popups all the time
As per the image, Safari has been showing the roll-over popups all the time on all Stack Exchange sites.
I've tried disabling all ad blockers but to no avail.
I'm on MacOS 11.2.3, using Safari 14.0.3.
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Interaction with vote buttons on tag synonyms page break tooltips
I just tried to vote on suggested tag synonyms page on ruSO and got very weird tooltips as a result (looks like some kind of encoding issue):
Before voting or after the page reloads all tooltips look ...
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Pluralization issue in the tags page tooltip for "1 questions"
There is a pluralization issue in the Tags page.
When there is only one question was asked for the tag in the recent time, it is showing as
1 questions tagged <tagname> in the last <period&...
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Pluralization issue for bookmark tooltip: "bookmarked by 1 users"
There's pluralization issue for bookmarked question tooltip, e.g.:
Such notice can be viable from profile questions tab or bounties tab.
Worth noting that that string have correctly pluralized ...
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Request tooltip rewording (or removal of edit button) when edit is not allowed
It currently reads:
Suggested edits are not allowed on non-tag-wiki posts on meta sites.
Which was, at least to me, a head scratcher for a moment. Note: the meta sites I frequent, I can suggest or ...
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New Contributor hover card information opens a scrollbar on a post
Not sure when this started happening, but the new contributor hover information now makes a scrollbar appear, and keeps all of the hover card information constrained to a small area surrounding the ...
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Display user reputation on mouseover for the list of the users who closed the question
Reputation should be displayed on mouseover for each of the users listed in the blue "Closed question" box. This box appears at the top of the closed question. This change will make the look ...
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"Show X items per page" tooltips are in English for all international sites
At the bottom right of the Active Questions page, the "Show X items per page" tooltip for all the international sites is in English. Take SO in Russian, for example. Hover over this, and ...
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Include related topic link (learn more button) instead of go get it button in the badge tooltips, if necessary
In the privilege tooltips we see learn more button and button link give us details information on related topic/rules.
link & picture below
In the badge tooltips we see some badge tooltips has go ...
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Tooltips with different styles after a fix was done [duplicate]
This was found in Windows 10 with Chrome.
After the resolution of this question, I noticed that we have the following tooltip style when hovering on "Following"
When we hover in the others, ...
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The tooltip of the Bûche de Noël hat shows “�” characters [closed]
The tooltip for Bûche de Noël in the Winter Bash modal has an encoding issue: accented characters are shown as �.
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Date tooltips don't appear on Mod dashboard
There are several dates shown to moderators on 'Mod dashboard' tab of a user's profile. For most dates on the Stack Exchange sites, if you hover your mouse over them, they will show the exact date, ...
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Please add a delay to the tag-badge tooltips in closed post notices
The tooltips for tag badges in closed post notices come up too fast. Hovering or even just passing over the "discussion" tag badge in this post brings up the tooltip way too quickly - ...
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Why are there "greater-than-signs (>)" in locked post vote-totals tooltips?
Wherever I go, if I click on the vote totals tooltip on a locked question or answer that has historical significance, there is always a > present just before the description.
This screenshot:
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Change "View tag" to "View tag info" in tag tooltip
In the tooltip of any tag below the question you can see a link "View tag" in the end of text that refers to the list of questions that have that tag. In the same time you can just click on ...
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Dialog/tooltip for 'protect' button misaligned on narrow screens
On a narrow screen, the 'protect' button sometimes wraps to the next line of the so-called 'post menu'; if you click it, the resulting dialog/tooltip can become misaligned. On Safari, this happens on ...
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Tooltip of "Show activity on this post"-link doesn't line up with others
I noticed a little (very minor) flaw when hovering over the left-hand side buttons for up-/downvote, bookmark and activity found next to every question and answer.
The Problem
The popover-tooltips of ...
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Can we please clean up the new tooltips around the upvote/downvote buttons?
This question focuses on the UI of the new tooltips (not the text), and it has the following sole focus: Completely undoing the recent change.
Just simply undoing this will be a single change with a ...
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