Question

If I have <span>some text</span>, how can I have this:

<span title="*whatever is between span tags:* some text (in this case)">some text</span>

Answer 1

If you’re building that HTML yourself, then just add the text into a title attribute at the time you’re generating the html. e.g, in PHP it would be:

$text = 'some text';

<span title="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($text) ?>"><?php echo $text ?></span>

if you’re doing it after the fact via Javascript, then (using jquery):

$('span').each(function () {
     this.attr('title', this.text());
});