Add line break within tooltips

Question

How can line breaks be added within a HTML tooltip?

I tried using <br/> and \n within the tooltip as follows:

<a href="#" title="Some long text <br/> Second line text \n Third line text">Hover me</a>

However, this was useless and I could see the literal text <br/> and \n within the tooltip. Any suggestions will be helpful.

Answer 1

Just use the entity code 
 for a linebreak in a title attribute.

Answer 2

Just add a data attribute

data-html="true"

and you're good to go.

Eg. usage:

<i data-html="true" class="tooltip ficon-help-icon" twipsy-content-set="true" data-original-title= "<b>Hello</b> Stackoverflow"> </i>

It has worked in majority of the tooltip plugins i have tried as of now.

Answer 3

The 
 combined with the style white-space: pre-line; worked for me.

Answer 4

This CSS is what finally worked for me in conjunction with a linefeed in my editor:

.tooltip-inner {
    white-space: pre-wrap;
}

Found here: How to make Twitter bootstrap tooltips have multiple lines?

Answer 5

\n

with the styling

.tooltip-inner {
    white-space: pre-line;
}

worked for me.

Answer 6

Give \n between the text. It work on all browsers.

Example 
img.tooltip= " Your Text : \n"
img.tooltip += " Your text \n";

This will work for me and it's used in code behind.

Hope this will work for you

Answer 7

I found it. It can be done by simply doing like this

<a ref="#" title="First Line
                  Second Line
                  Third line">Hover Me</a>

Answer 8

The javascript version

Since 
 (html) is 0D (hex), this can be represented as '\u000d'

str = str.replace(/\n/g, '\u000d');

In addition,

Sharing with you guys an AngularJS filter that replaces \n with that character thanks to the references in the other answers

app.filter('titleLineBreaker', function () {
    return function (str) {
        if (!str) {
            return str;
        }

        return str.replace(/\n/g, '\u000d');
    };
});

usage

<div title="{{ message | titleLineBreaker }}"> </div>

Answer 9

just use \n in title and add this css

.tooltip-inner {
    white-space: pre-wrap;
}

Answer 10

<br /> did work if you are using qTip

Answer 11

Just add data-html="true"

<a href="#" title="Some long text <br/> Second line text \n Third line text" data-html="true">Hover me</a>

Answer 12

it is possible to add linebreaks within native HTML tooltips by simply having the title attribute spread over mutliple lines.

However, I'd recommend using a jQuery tooltip plugin such as Q-Tip: http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip/.

It is simple to set up and use. Alternatively there are a lot of free javascript tooltip plugins around too.

edit: correction on first statement.

Answer 13

For me, a 2-step solution (combination of formatting the title and adding the style) worked, as follows:

1) Format the title attrbiute:

<a ref="#" title="First Line
                  Second Line
                  Third line">Hover Me</a>

2) Add this style to the tips element:

white-space: pre-line;

Tested in IE8, Firefox 22, and Safari 5.1.7.

Answer 14

You can use bootstrap tooltip, and don't forget to set the html option to true.

<div id="tool"> tooltip</div>

$('#tool').tooltip({
     title: 'line one' +'<br />'+ 'line two',
     html: true
});

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>

Answer 15

Well if you are using Jquery Tooltip utility, then in "jquery-ui.js" Javascript file find following text:

tooltip.find(".ui-tooltip-content").html(content);

and put above that

content=content.replace(/\&lt;/g,'<').replace(/\&gt;/g,'>');

I hope this will also work for you.

Answer 16

Just add this code snippet in your script:

    $(function () {
        $('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip()
    });

and ofcourse as mentioned in above answers the data-html should be "true". This will allow you to use html tags and formatting inside the value of title attribute.

Answer 17

So if you are using bootstrap4 then this will work.

<style>
   .tooltip-inner {
    white-space: pre-wrap;
   }

</style>

<script> 
    $(function () {
      $('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip()
    })
</script>

<a data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="auto" title=" first line &#010; next line" href= ""> Hover me </a>

If you are using in Django project then we can also display dynamic data in tooltips like:

<a class="black-text pb-2 pt-1" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="auto"  title="{{ post.location }} &#010; {{ post.updated_on }}" href= "{% url 'blog:get_user_profile' post.author.id %}">{{ post.author }}</a>

Answer 18

The solution for me was http://jqueryui.com/tooltip/:

And here the code (the part of script that make <br/> Works is "content:"):

HTML HEAD

<head runat="server">
    <script src="../Scripts/jquery-2.0.3.min.js"></script>
    <link href="Content/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="../Scripts/jquery-ui-1.10.3.min.js"></script>
<script>
    /*Position:
      my =>  at
      at => element*/
    $(function () {
        $(document).tooltip({
            content: function() {
                var element = $( this );
                if ( element.is( "[title]" ) ) {
                    return element.attr( "title" );
                }

            },
            position: { my: "left bottom-3", at: "center top" } });
    });
</script>
</head>

ASPX or HTML control

<asp:TextBox ID="Establecimiento" runat="server" Font-Size="1.3em" placeholder="Establecimiento" title="Texto 1.<br/>TIP: texto 2"></asp:TextBox>

Hope this help someone

Answer 19

Grater than Jquery UI 1.10 is not support to use html tag inside of the title attribute because its not valid html.

So the alternative solution is to use tooltip content option. Refer - http://api.jqueryui.com/tooltip/#option-content

Answer 20

Use

&#013

There shouldn't be any ; character.

Answer 21

if you are using jquery-ui 1.11.4:

var tooltip = $.widget( "ui.tooltip", {
    version: "1.11.4",
    options: {
        content: function() {
            // support: IE<9, Opera in jQuery <1.7
            // .text() can't accept undefined, so coerce to a string
            var title = $( this ).attr( "title" ) || "";
            // Escape title, since we're going from an attribute to raw HTML
Replace-->  //return $( "<a>" ).text( title ).html();
by -->      return $( "<a>" ).html( title );
             },

Answer 22

AngularJS with Bootstrap UI Tolltip (uib-tooltip), has three versions of tool-tip:

uib-tooltip, uib-tooltip-template and uib-tooltip-html

- uib-tooltip takes only text and will escape any HTML provided
- uib-tooltip-html takes an expression that evaluates to an HTML string
- uib-tooltip-template takes a text that specifies the location of the template

In my case, I opted for uib-tooltip-html and there are three parts to it:

1. configuration
2. controller
3. HTML

Example:

(function(angular) {

//Step 1: configure $sceProvider - this allows the configuration of $sce service.

angular.module('myApp', ['uib.bootstrap'])
       .config(function($sceProvider) {
           $sceProvider.enabled(false);
       });

//Step 2: Set the tooltip content in the controller

angular.module('myApp')
       .controller('myController', myController);

myController.$inject = ['$sce'];

function myController($sce) {
    var vm = this;
    vm.tooltipContent = $sce.trustAsHtml('I am the first line <br /><br />' +
                                         'I am the second line-break');

    return vm;
}

 })(window.angular);

//Step 3: Use the tooltip in HTML (UI)

<div ng-controller="myController as get">
     <span uib-tooltip-html="get.tooltipContent">other Contents</span>
</div>

For more information, please check here

Answer 23

Using .html() instead of .text() worked for me. For example

.html("This is a first line." + "<br/>" + "This is a second line.")

Answer 24

use 
 should work (I've tested in Chrome, Firefox and Edge):

let users = [{username: 'user1'}, {username: 'user2'}, {username: 'user3'}];
let favTitle = '';
for(let j = 0; j < users.length; j++)
    favTitle += users[j].username + "&#13;";

$("#item").append('<i title="In favorite users: &#13;' + favTitle + '">Favorite</i>');

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id = item></div>

Answer 25

Hi this code will work in all browser !!i used for new line in chrome and safari and ul li for IE

 function genarateMultiLIneCode(){
        var =values["a","b","c"];
        const liStart = '<li>';
              const liEnd = '</li>';
              const bullet = '&#8226; ';     
              var mergedString = ' ';
              const unOrderListStart='<ul>'
              const unOrderListEnd='</ul>'
              const fakeNewline = '&#013;&#010;';
              for (let i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
                   mergedString += liStart + bullet + values[i] + liEnd + fakeNewline;
              }
              const tempElement = document.createElement("div");
              tempElement.innerHTML = unOrderListStart + mergedString + unOrderListEnd;    
              return tempElement.innerText;
            }
        }

Answer 26

Just use the entity code 
 for a linebreak in a title attribute.

<a title="First Line &#xA;Second Line">Hover Me </a>

Answer 27

This css will help you.

    .tooltip {
      word-break: break-all;
    }

or if you want in one line

    .tooltip-inner {
      max-width: 100%;
    }