# Tooltips on sidebar expose HTML

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/tooltips-on-sidebar-expose-html/239998>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** sidebar\
**Created:** [September 25, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tooltips-on-sidebar-expose-html/239998 "2022-09-25T10:51:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tooltips-on-sidebar-expose-html/239998/1 "2022-09-25T10:51:27Z")

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I’ve got a few #links and @mentions in my Category descriptions, which are very helpful for category-specific navigation.

Unfortunately the tooltips in the #sidebar reveal the cooked HTML instead of the text for these bits, which is super messy:

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/4X/f/e/8/fe8a2b1e0bf5ec8fa9646750fb7c381f0256165c_2_690x54.png)

Perhaps they could be sanitised and have the links removed (leaving just the text)?

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