# Topic List Tooltips

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-tooltips/390466
**Category:** Theme component
**Created:** [December 5, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-tooltips/390466 "2025-12-05T00:50:27Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-tooltips/390466/1 "2025-12-05T00:50:27Z")

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This is a theme component equivalent of the [Discourse Tooltips](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-tooltips/69304) plugin — all the functionality of that plugin is now achievable via theme!

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| :discourse2: | **Summary** | Allows for the previewing of the contents of topics on hover. |
| 👓 | **Preview** | [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/awesomerobot/topic-list-tooltips) |
| 🛠 | **Repository Link** | [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-topic-list-tooltips](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-topic-list-tooltips) |
| 📖 | **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

### Features

When hovering over the title of a topic in the topic list, you will see the excerpt from the first post of a topic. If you use the gist feature in the [Discourse AI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai/259214) plugin, you can optionally configure this to show gist content on hover instead.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/7/4/0748772dc4af1a76ae6538716c6350b769171d1f.jpeg)

### Settings

| Name | Description |
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| Tooltip content | Defaults to excerpts, can optionally be configured to show AI gists |
| Hover delay seconds | Defaults to 0.25, delays the hover to avoid the tooltips getting in the way when passing links or scrolling |

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