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.

Schoonmaker

I 've had the same question: #3320581 – Nabataean

use <pre>data-html="true"</pre> Ref and thanks to: https://mcmap.net/q/88683/-add-line-break-to-tooltip-in-bootstrap-3 – Rendon

In asp.net (C# .NET 4.5 Framework) adding Environment.NewLine works to add a line break from the code side... no fuss.. no muss... – Brazilin

The answer below, by Dan works perfectly. It is assing in the CSS for that element the line white-space as following: .tooltip-inner { white-space: pre-wrap; } – Biradial

Answer 1

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

Firmin

if entity code &#013; doesn't work, try &#10; i am using linux and chrome not sure about other browsers – Sienese

I tried this and it works when I inject it using inspect element, but not when I include it in my html and deploy it with this character. Any obvious reason I might be missing? – Iodometry

For me &#10 din't work for me in Windows, Chrome v53. But 
 worked fine. – Weaponless

I just used both versions, 
, seems to work quite well :) – Paper

&#013; doesn't work in Firefox v58. However &#10 does work fine. Using @Paper solution of using both line-breaks as required works well to get it to work in Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Firefox. – Beekeeper

Does not work in IE, and neither does &#010. Why do browsers suck so bad that nobody can ever provide a real answer to questions like this? – Erbe

This does not work if title attribute is dynamically set using javascript – Fusilier

both codes didnt work in my asp.net webform application, this method resolved the requirement. data-toggle="tooltip" data-html="true" title="some string <br/> some string" – Vandervelde

Neither &#013; or &#010; worked for me...but the suggestion from Pranesh worked great. data-html="true" + <br /> = FTW – Skepful

I had to add data-bs-html="true". – Cassidycassie

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.

Crofton

data-html="true" with <br /> in title text works perfectly. – Dowager

None of the above solutions worked for me. But this one works nice. – Crocket

I believe there is a missing ">" just before "</i>" I tried to edit myself, but the 'edit queue' is full. – Monadelphous

Doesn't this require bootstrap? OP was using <title> – Temekatemerity

Didn't work to me. Angular 10. – Peres

I had to add data-bs-html="true". – Cassidycassie

Answer 3

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

Kesha

I spent a while trying to get this to work. The fact that the white-space: pre-line; style is needed is very hidden. – Avner

@JimD what class/element does the style rule need to be applied to? – Plectognath

For me this works fine without any custom css on tooltips. – Whortleberry

This is the one you are looking for friends. – Conformable

Actually, the character should be 
: #6502554 – Conformable

The pre-line did the trick, but it only worked for me with &#10; – Bryna

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?

Shaughn

@Shaughn Came here looking for help. My tooltip text was continuing outside the box. This worked! +1 – Thurible

Answer 5

\n

with the styling

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

worked for me.

Veroniqueverras

\n is to be used in javascript, for HTML we should use 
 or 
 or both – Lothair

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

Whiffler

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>

Schoonmaker

Answer 8

just use \n in title and add this css

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

Reverend

Answer 9

<br /> did work if you are using qTip

Norty

Answer 10

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>

Sorosis

Answer 11

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>

Jargon

Answer 12

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>

Plenish

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.

Racine

I think it's messy though, to have broken lines in the code – Knurly

What is the "tips" element? – Hybridize

Answer 14

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.

Postobit

Answer 15

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

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

Fireworks

Answer 16

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>

Merrymaker

Answer 17

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.

Yemane

Answer 18

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.

Holbert

+1, Your solution worked . my sample code: data-toggle="tooltip" data-html="true" title="some string <br/> some string" . – Vandervelde

Good to hear that 👍 – Holbert

Answer 19

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

Atory

Answer 20

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

Sorensen

Answer 21

Use

&#013

There shouldn't be any ; character.

Glassy

Answer 22

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 );
             },

Zoophilia

Answer 23

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

Milkmaid

Answer 24

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

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

Armpit

this is not for title/tooltips. your code is for normal HTML content – Lothair

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;
            }
        }

Lowell

Answer 26

This css will help you.

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

or if you want in one line

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

Everglades