The title attribute

The title attribute specifies a tooltip for an element that will appear when you hover over the element with the mouse (you need to hover and hold the cursor for a second or two).

Unfortunately, it is not possible to apply any CSS styles to this tooltip, and the tooltip does not look very good (use JavaScript to make a styled tooltip).

Example

Let's try hovering the mouse over the paragraph text from the example - and we'll see the contents of the title attribute as a tooltip:

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See also