The plugin seems to be pretty straightforward: install, activate. I’ve done both, result: [image] But there are no tooltips shown :frowning: Not when I’m logged in, not with private browser window and not logged in. Any idea on how I could debug this? Maybe my expectation is completely wrong……

I didn’t want to buy a Mac only to test this :wink: But indeed the tooltip appears on a laptop without touchscreen (not on meta though). It isn’t working on a secondary non-touch display connected to a laptop with touchscreen. At least some user will profit from the tooltips. Is the touchscreen …

hover does work fine on machines that don’t have touchscreens. You get hover with a mouse or touchpad pointer, for example, here is me hovering over the share button: [image] But for the laptops that have touchscreen and mouse/touchpad.. I’m not sure there is a way to detect when the mouse is unp…

I just merged a fix for this, so the tooltips plugin hovers will now display on touchscreen devices (like Chromebooks, Surfaces) if you navigate using the mouse. (They will not display if you navigate using the touchscreen.) If you’re self-hosting the site, make sure you rebuild it to pull the rece…

Tooltips not showing up on devices with touchscreen

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) July 11, 2021, 5:25am 2

Are you testing on a touchscreen laptop? I suggest testing on a Mac to rule out touchscreen interference.

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Tooltips not showing up on devices with touchscreen

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