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---
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icon: material/tooltip-plus
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---
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# Tooltips
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Technical documentation often incurs the usage of many acronyms, which may
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need additional explanation, especially for new user of your project. For these
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matters, Material for MkDocs uses a combination of Markdown extensions to
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enable site-wide glossaries.
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## Configuration
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This configuration enables abbreviations and allows to build a simple
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project-wide glossary, sourcing definitions from a central location. Add the
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following line to `mkdocs.yml`:
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``` yaml
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markdown_extensions:
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- abbr
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- attr_list
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- pymdownx.snippets
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```
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See additional configuration options:
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- [Abbreviations]
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- [Attribute Lists]
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- [Snippets]
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[Abbreviations]: ../setup/extensions/python-markdown.md#abbreviations
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[Attribute Lists]: ../setup/extensions/python-markdown.md#attribute-lists
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[Snippets]: ../setup/extensions/python-markdown-extensions.md#snippets
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### Improved tooltips
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<!-- md:version 9.5.0 -->
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<!-- md:flag experimental -->
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When improved tooltips are enabled, Material for MkDocs replaces the browser's
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rendering logic for `title` attribute with beautiful little tooltips.
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Add the following lines to `mkdocs.yml`:
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``` yaml
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theme:
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features:
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- content.tooltips
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```
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Now, tooltips will be rendered for the following elements:
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- __Content__ – elements with a `title`, permalinks and code copy button
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- __Header__ – home button, header title, color palette switch and repository link
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- __Navigation__ – links that are shortened with ellipsis, i.e. `...`
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## Usage
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### Adding tooltips
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The [Markdown syntax] allows to specify a `title` for each link, which will
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render as a beautiful tooltip when [improved tooltips] are enabled. Add a
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tooltip to a link with the following lines:
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``` markdown title="Link with tooltip, inline syntax"
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[Hover me](https://example.com "I'm a tooltip!")
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```
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<div class="result" markdown>
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[Hover me](https://example.com "I'm a tooltip!")
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</div>
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Tooltips can also be added to link references:
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``` markdown title="Link with tooltip, reference syntax"
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[Hover me][example]
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[example]: https://example.com "I'm a tooltip!"
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```
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<div class="result" markdown>
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[Hover me](https://example.com "I'm a tooltip!")
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</div>
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For all other elements, a `title` can be added by using the [Attribute Lists]
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extension:
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``` markdown title="Icon with tooltip"
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:material-information-outline:{ title="Important information" }
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```
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<div class="result" markdown>
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:material-information-outline:{ title="Important information" }
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</div>
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[Markdown syntax]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link
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[improved tooltips]: #improved-tooltips
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### Adding abbreviations
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Abbreviations can be defined by using a special syntax similar to URLs and
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[footnotes], starting with a `*` and immediately followed by the term or
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acronym to be associated in square brackets:
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``` markdown title="Text with abbreviations"
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The HTML specification is maintained by the W3C.
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*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
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*[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium
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```
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<div class="result" markdown>
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The HTML specification is maintained by the W3C.
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*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
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*[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium
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</div>
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[footnotes]: footnotes.md
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### Adding a glossary
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The [Snippets] extension can be used to implement a simple glossary by moving
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all abbreviations in a dedicated file[^1], and [auto-append] this file to all
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pages with the following configuration:
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[^1]:
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It's highly recommended to put the Markdown file containing the
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abbreviations outside of the `docs` folder (here, a folder with the name
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`includes` is used), as MkDocs might otherwise complain about an
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unreferenced file.
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=== ":octicons-file-code-16: `includes/abbreviations.md`"
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```` markdown
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*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
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*[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium
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````
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=== ":octicons-file-code-16: `mkdocs.yml`"
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```` yaml
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markdown_extensions:
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- pymdownx.snippets:
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auto_append:
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- includes/abbreviations.md
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````
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[auto-append]: https://facelessuser.github.io/pymdown-extensions/extensions/snippets/#auto-append-snippets
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!!! tip
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When using a dedicated file outside of the `docs` folder, add the parent directory to the list
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of `watch` folders so that when the glossary file is updated, the project is automatically
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reloaded when running `mkdocs serve`.
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```` yaml
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watch:
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- includes
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````
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