# Inline Tooltips
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/inline-tooltips/394850
**Category:** Theme component
**Created:** [January 31, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inline-tooltips/394850 "2026-01-31T14:47:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inline-tooltips/394850/1 "2026-01-31T14:47:45Z")
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| ℹ | **Summary** | **Provides a button in the Discourse Composer toolbar to add Inline Tooltips within posts.** |
| 👓 | **Preview** | [discourse-inline-tooltips/README.md at main · denvergeeks/discourse-inline-tooltips · GitHub](https://github.com/denvergeeks/discourse-inline-tooltips/blob/main/README.md) |
| 🛠 | **Repository** | [GitHub - denvergeeks/discourse-inline-tooltips: Provides a button in the Discourse Composer toolbar to add Inline Tooltips within posts. · GitHub](https://github.com/denvergeeks/discourse-inline-tooltips) |
| ❓ | **Install Guide** | [How to install a theme or theme component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-install-a-theme-or-theme-component/63682) |
| 📖 | **New to Discourse Themes?** | [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) |
Install this theme component
**Provides a button in the Discourse Composer toolbar to add Inline Tooltips in Topics and Posts.**
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### Author:  [@ked](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ked)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 6:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inline-tooltips/394850/2 "2026-02-03T18:31:32Z")
Will this TC work on any theme? Looks interesting.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inline-tooltips/394850/3 "2026-02-03T19:13:32Z")
To me, this looks similar to the [Add \ tags to words in posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-abbr-tags-to-words-in-posts/88394) component. I noticed that this component doesn’t use the `` HTML tag, like Hover me (`Hover me`), which made me curious about the design choice.
From my understanding, one advantage of using `` is that the information remains available even if the component is removed later. I think with the current approach, the span would become invisible in that case. I’d love to understand what advantages this approach has and am hoping to learn something new.
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### Author:  [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inline-tooltips/394850/4 "2026-02-05T17:59:26Z")
As always, I would be so grateful for anyone who would like to share ideas or participate in this effort 🤗
My objective here is to have a toolbar button to enable the quick creation of a tooltip which reveals on hover (or optionally on click) and which can contain anything (including but not necessarily limited to HTML and Markdown), and which will most gracefully continue to display the enclosed content even if the component is removed, or when the page is viewed as a [published page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/page-publishing/151971), and in the absence of any non-core/default plugin or theme component.
I would like the TC to provide the best general compatibility for going forward, leveraging the core Tooltip and/or DModal, or perhaps simply extending or adapting the [Footnotes Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-footnote/84533).
I’ve tested some of the existing theme components and plugins which each provide for specific use cases and each have their own limitations or quirky behaviors, such as not rendering certain types of content correctly, or not useable in mobile, or the Tip container not showing or not adapting to position changes, etc.
I had wanted to make a table showing each existing component/plugin including its respective use case and limitations, but at the moment I don’t have the time, and would certainly welcome any input.
> [@Discourse Footnote](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-footnote/84533):
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> discourse2Summary Discourse Footnote allows users to create markdown footnotes in posts.open_bookInstall Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. Enabling Footnote The Footnote plugin is default enabled but can be disabled/enabled from the admin/plugins page: [enable footnote] Features Once enabled, you can add footnotes to your posts by typing them in like this: A sentence that needs a footnote. ^[The foo…
[https://github.com/Arkshine/discourse-tooltipify-words](https://github.com/Arkshine/discourse-tooltipify-words)
> [@Add \ tags to words in posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-abbr-tags-to-words-in-posts/88394):
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> About This theme component is ported from [Auto-Linkify Words](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linkify-words-in-post/82193) to provide functionality similar to the [Abbreviations and acronyms plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/abbreviations-and-acronyms-plugin/38501) – namely to wrap various abbreviations used in a given forum/site/Discourse installation in \ tags. Location How to install Credits Thanks to @sam for writing the “Linkify words in post” plugin.
> [@Discourse Tooltips](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-tooltips/69304):
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> discourse2Summary Discourse Tooltips allows for the previewing of the contents of topics on hover.hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-tooltips](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-tooltips)open_bookInstall Guide [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157)Features In the future the plugin will show more tooltips but this seemed like a good start slight_smile Last edited by @JammyDodger 2024-06-03T22:01:04Z (UTC) play_button Check document