Template:Tooltip/doc

This template may be used to generate a tooltip when hovering over marked text.

Note: this template is § not to be used for expanding initialisms or acronyms; see template {{abbr}} for that instead. See § Notes for more details on access limitations for mobile and screen reader users.

Usage

• {{Tooltip|inline text|hover text}}
• {{Tooltip|inline text|hover text|dotted=no|link=yes|class=...|style=...|id=...}}

When not to use

Abbreviations – The {{Tooltip}} template is not intended for use with abbreviations, including acronyms and initialisms; use template {{abbr}} for that instead.

Body text – The tooltip template should not be used within the body text of an article if possible (see MOS:NOTOOLTIPS).

As footnotes – Tooltips are not a substitute for footnotes. They are intended to be used for navigational and other secondary features where space is limited. See Template:Glossary link or Template:Cite book/doc#Usage for practical examples.

In citations – Tooltips cannot be used inside citation templates. If you're tempted to put a tooltip in a citation, it may be better to place a plaintext note after the citation template but before the closing </ref> tag, or use a nested footnote.

Parameters

There are two required positional parameters, and five optional named parameters:

• |1= – the term to be explained; displays as text. Wiki markup is allowed but works more consistently when wrapping the template, see below for linking examples.
• |2= – the tooltip/pop-up (no wiki or HTML markup allowed). The popup is created by an HTML title= attribute, so it cannot contain HTML (or markup that resolves to HTML when rendered). This includes simple things like ''italics''.
• |dotted= – set to no to remove dotted underline decoration (default: use dotted underline)
• |link= – set to yes to link the tooltip to the value in param 1 (default: tooltip is unlinked)

These three parameters take the standard values as defined by HTML and CSS:

• |class= – one or more CSS classes (space-separated, enclosed in quotes)
• |id= – an HTML ID must be unique on the entire page.
• |style= – CSS to apply to the displayed text (no effect on tooltip/popup). Any style values with embedded blanks must be single-quoted, e.g. |style=font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;

Examples

• {{tooltip|TKO|technical knockout}} → TKO
• {{tooltip|conflict of interest|COI as used in Wikipedia policy|dotted=no}} → conflict of interest
• {{tooltip|תוכן נִסתָר|תוכן ברור|dotted=no}} → תוכן נִסתָר
• {{tooltip|Sex gap|Difference in life expectancy for female and male}} → Sex gap
• {{tooltip|'''$31,152,975'''|Career prize money}} → $31,152,975
• {{tooltip|male|Assigned male at birth}} → male
• {{tooltip|Cupronickel|75% copper, 25% nickel}} → Cupronickel
• {{tooltip|ई|ī|dotted=no}} → ई
• {{tooltip|''Voyage with a Tail Wind''|simplified Chinese: 顺风相送; traditional Chinese: 順風相送; pinyin: Shùnfēng Xiāngsòng|dotted=no}} → Voyage with a Tail Wind

Template data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Tooltip in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Tooltip

A pop-up tooltip displayed on mouse-over.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Term	1	Rendered in-line as normal text	Line	required
Tooltip	2	Shows as a pop-up, mouse-over tooltip	String	required
Link	link	set to 'yes' to link the term to the article specified by Term Default no Example yes	Boolean	optional
Dotted	dotted	applies the specified CSS directives to the content of parameter 1 Default no Example yes	Boolean	optional
Style	style	applies the specified CSS directives to the content of parameter 1	String	optional
Class	class	Adds one or more CSS classes, separated by a blank	String	optional
ID	id	Adds an HTML id (must be unique in the page)	String	optional

Notes

• This template is not available in the mobile view of Wikipedia, which lacks the hover feature. As of 2025, more English Wikipedia page views occur on mobile than on desktop browsers.
• Screen readers often have difficulty with plain hover pop-up text.

Maintenance categories

• Category:Pages using tooltip with unknown parameters (0)

See also

• {{Abbr}}
• {{Dfn}}