Display tooltips in mobile web and apps by tapping (Community Wishlist/W521)
In the desktop view you have every now and then some HTML elements that have tooltips that I can display by hovering the mouse over them. They are usually visually distinct from other elements (they have a dotted underline, for example). Most of the time they show me the expansion of an abbreviation and on English Wikipedia there also are many uses of {{tooltip|…}}.
When I visit the same pages in the mobile view, whether on the browser or the Wikipedia app, I can't access the tooltip. Intuitively I tap the element, but nothing shows up.
I don't think it's a major technical challenge to make those elements "tappable" and to show some floating box for a while using a couple of lines of JavaScript.
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- Created: 17:13, 11 March 2026
- Last updated: 12:50, 17 April 2026
- Author: Ignacio Rodríguez (talk)
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