Did you know? The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building in the world for over 3,800 years, until the construction of the Lincoln Cathedral in the UK in 1311.
The title attribute on a <span> tag adds a tooltip with title text to the span element.
Hovering the mouse over the span element will display the tooltip.
A title attribute on a <span> element.
Did you know? The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building in the world for over 3,800 years, until the construction of the Lincoln Cathedral in the UK in 1311.
<article>
<p style="max-width:610px;">
Did you know? The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building in the world
for <span title="the great pyramid of giza">over 3,800 years</span>,
until the construction of the Lincoln Cathedral in the UK in 1311.
</p>
</article>
The title attribute is placed in the <span> opening tag.
The value can be any string.
Hover the cursor over the <span> and after a second a tooltip appears.
The title attributes attaches additional information to the <span> element.
The title attribute value can be seen as tooltip.
The tooltip displays when the <span> element is hovered.
<span title="value">
Value | Description |
---|---|
value |
A string value. A title can span multiple lines by including newline or carriage-return characters: or 
. |
Here is when title support started for each browser:
Chrome
|
1.0 | Sep 2008 |
Firefox
|
1.0 | Sep 2002 |
IE/Edge
|
1.0 | Aug 1995 |
Opera
|
1.0 | Jan 2006 |
Safari
|
1.0 | Jan 2003 |
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