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Asked: 2026-05-15T22:42:56+00:00

While we ask a question, SO shows related questions. If we hover on the

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While we ask a question, SO shows related questions. If we hover on the questions the content is displayed as a tooltip which contains linebreaks, indentations etc. What technique SO uses for it? How to display tooltips wit the formatting?

Other than, jquery/javascript is there any simple way to achieve it?

Was just wondering, should i ask this on Meta?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It is just a title attribute on the hyperlink, plain and simple.

    <a href="..." title="The value is approximately
        3.14159265
    but for simplicity you can always round it
    to exactly 3.0">What is the value of Pi?</a>

    In IE, Chrome & Safari, it honors the line breaks a bit more strictly than say Firefox or Opera.

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