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Learn more about Labs How are we doing? Take our short survey Tooltips for Button elements Ask Question Asked 14 years, 9 months ago Modified 2 years, 7 months ago Viewed 560k times 433

Is it possible to create a tooltip for an html button. Its the normal HTML button and there is no Title attribute as it is there for some html controls. Any thoughts or comments?

• html
• button
• tooltip

Share Improve this question Follow edited Mar 9, 2021 at 22:18 isherwood 60.9k1616 gold badges120120 silver badges167167 bronze badges asked Feb 10, 2010 at 16:00 SARAVANSARAVAN 15k1616 gold badges5151 silver badges7070 bronze badges Add a comment |

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Simply add a title to your button.

<button title="Hello World!">Sample Button</button>

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jan 5, 2017 at 23:10 Urda 5,41055 gold badges3838 silver badges5050 bronze badges answered Feb 10, 2010 at 16:06 Muad'DibMuad'Dib 29.1k55 gold badges5757 silver badges7171 bronze badges 5

• 15 @EduardLuca, In my case tooltip really does no work on disabled buttons because Bootstrap sets pointer-events: none for disabled state. It should work if set pointer-events: auto directly to the element. – Vitalii Alekask Commented Sep 7, 2016 at 9:45
• it's also that, the tooltip will aim to show bottom from where the mouse is. So if the target element is on the bottom right of the screen then the tooltip scrambles over the mouse pointer. More generally: the position of the tip isn't smart sometimes... but I guess that's just the browsers then. – gideon Commented Jul 21, 2017 at 6:21
• 1 There are situations where tooltips are necessary, but it is important to consider your userbase when using the method in this answer. I used the title attribute for showing a keyboard shortcut for a button because shortcuts aren't necessary and touch only devices don't use keyboards. – Dave F Commented Jun 2, 2018 at 17:54
• but this doesn't show tooltip when you use keyboard to focus the button, any other trick to handle this? I guess this is accessibility issue, no? – Nikhil Commented Oct 4, 2018 at 13:31
• Reference: HTML Living Standard 3.2.6.1 The title attribute. – Ludovic Kuty Commented May 26, 2020 at 8:20

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both <button> tag and <input type="button"> accept a title attribute..

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Feb 10, 2010 at 16:03 Gabriele PetrioliGabriele Petrioli 196k3434 gold badges271271 silver badges327327 bronze badges 2

• 1 What about for plain HTML links using <a> and href? – Aaron Franke Commented Jan 6, 2019 at 4:39
• 3 @AaronFranke yes a tags as well as all tags support the title attribute. See developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes – Gabriele Petrioli Commented Jan 6, 2019 at 10:06

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Use title attribute. It is a standard HTML attribute and is by default rendered in a tooltip by most desktop browsers.

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Nov 27, 2019 at 15:18 answered Feb 10, 2010 at 16:03 skymanskyman 2,4721717 silver badges1616 bronze badges 0 Add a comment | 26

A button accepts a "title" attribute. You can then assign it the value you want to make a label appear when you hover the mouse over the button.

<button type="submit" title="Login"> Login</button>

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Dec 19, 2019 at 23:03 Félix UrrutiaFélix Urrutia 27133 silver badges33 bronze badges 0 Add a comment | 14

For everyone here seeking a crazy solution, just simply try

title="your-tooltip-here"

in any tag. I've tested into td's and a's and it pretty works.

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Aug 24, 2018 at 11:08 Pac0 22.9k99 gold badges7272 silver badges8080 bronze badges answered Mar 6, 2017 at 13:49 Davidson LimaDavidson Lima 8491010 silver badges1919 bronze badges 2

• 2 @krillgar, I gave a general solution that works not only with button but other tags. My intention was reinforce this possibility. – Davidson Lima Commented Mar 30, 2017 at 15:55
• 4 regarding your last comment, it's already what skyman's answer was saying years ago. – Pac0 Commented Aug 24, 2018 at 11:08

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The title attribute is meant to give more information. It's not useful for SEO so it's never a good idea to have the same text in the title and alt which is meant to describe the image or input is vs. what it does. for instance:

<button title="prints out hello world">Sample Buttons</button> <img title="Hms beagle in the straits of magellan" alt="HMS Beagle painting" src="hms-beagle.jpg" />

The title attribute will make a tool tip, but it will be controlled by the browser as far as where it shows up and what it looks like. If you want more control there are third party jQuery options, many css templates such as Bootstrap have built in solutions, and you can also write a simple css solution if you want. check out this w3schools solution.

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Oct 28, 2019 at 22:23 A. U. CrawfordA. U. Crawford 2111 bronze badge Add a comment | 2

If your button still doesn't show anything with title, check if your button is NOT disabled

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jul 8, 2020 at 8:25 Eugene IhnatsyeuEugene Ihnatsyeu 1,5351616 silver badges1717 bronze badges Add a comment | -3

You should use both title and alt attributes to make it work in all browsers.

<button title="Hello World!" alt="Hello World!">Sample Button</button> Share Improve this answer Follow edited Nov 19, 2018 at 12:38 answered Nov 19, 2018 at 11:00 Sergey GurinSergey Gurin 1,5531616 silver badges1414 bronze badges 3

• 3 Why should you use both? – Andrei Cioara Commented Mar 31, 2019 at 20:14
• because some browser use alt attribute and some title – Sergey Gurin Commented May 17, 2019 at 20:13
• 13 Nonsense. The alt attribute is only valid for img, input type="image" and area tags. – Christoph Bach Commented Jun 4, 2019 at 16:06

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