tooltip

See also: Tooltip

English

Etymology

From tool +‎ tip, originally used with toolbars to provide a tip or hint as to what function each graphical icon represented. The term was introduced as ToolTip by Microsoft in the 1990s.

Noun

tooltip (plural tooltips)

1. (graphical user interface) An element of a graphical user interface in the form of a box of text that appears when a cursor is made to hover over an item; normally used to explain the function of the item.

Hypernyms

• tip

Translations

an element of a graphical user interface

• Afrikaans: hulpwenk (af)
• Arabic: تَلْمِيح (talmīḥ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工具提示 (gōngjù tíshì)

• Esperanto: ŝpruchelpilo
• Finnish: työkaluvihje
• French: infobulle (fr) f
• German: Tooltip m
• Gujarati: સાધનટિપ્પણી (sādhanṭippaṇī), સાધનમદદ (sādhnamdad)
• Hungarian: szövegbuborék, buboréksúgó, buboréktipp, eszköztipp, felbukkanó ablak, helyi súgó, súgóbuborék, súgószöveg, magyarázódoboz, eszközleírás, elemleírás, segédszöveg, leíróbuborék, gyorstipp, felugró üzenet
• Japanese: ツールチップ (tsūruchippu)
• Maori: akiutauta
• Portuguese: dica de contexto f
• Russian: подска́зка (ru) f (podskázka)
• Spanish: tooltip m
• Swedish: inforuta (sv) c
• Turkish: araç bilgisi, araç ipucu
• Vietnamese: mẹo công cụ, hộp gợi ý

See also

• toolbar

References

• tooltip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tip tool