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Posted: **Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:53 pm**

 [TT=<tooltip text>]<marked text>[/TT]

HereTop left corner is one of the relatively safe locations to place a tooltip.

This concept of a tooltip emulation still needs more testing and refinement.
Unlike in "real" tooltips the tooltip text can be selected and copied. We find this useful.

Generally tooltip are useful for explaining code like echo -nOption -n does not append a newline "Hello World",
characters like ‎

Unicode U+1F436 DOG FACE or an image like

Official Puppy icon, depicting a ‎panda.
HereBottom left corner is one of the critical locations to place a tooltip. Tooltips don't adjust position automatically

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[TT="Top
left corner"]Here[/TT] is one of the relatively safe locations to place a tooltip.

This concept of a tooltip emulation still needs more testing and refinement.
Unlike in "real" tooltips  the tooltip text can be selected and copied. We find this useful.

Generally tooltip are useful for explaining code like [b]echo [TT="Option -n does not append a newline"]-n[/TT] "Hello World"[/b],
characters like ‎[TT=Unicode U+1F436 DOG FACE]🐶[/TT] or an image like [TT="Official Puppy icon, depicting a ‎panda"][img]http://puppylinux-test.dnsalias.org/styles/prosilver/theme/images/pup-yinyang2b_fixed.png[/img]
[/TT].

[TT="Bottom
left corner"]Here[/TT] is one of the critical locations to place a tooltip. Tooltips don't adjust position automatically

Posted: **Tue Sep 29, 2020 1:24 am**

[EDIT]

As of 2022-10-01 the [TT] tag has been replaced by an improved [tooltip] tag

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2020 4:38 am**

Aaaahhh, evolution in progress...
David Attenborough would be very interested in this previously unknown branch of phylogeny I suspect.

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