# Bring back the mouseover preview!

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**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-mouseover-preview/911723 "2020-06-22T15:43:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steven\_G](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_g/32/5080_2.png) [@Steven\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_G)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-mouseover-preview/911723/46 "2020-06-28T15:23:31Z")

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Another thread on this as well.  
[https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mouseover/912436/31](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mouseover/912436/31)

Only works fully in the SDMB themes, and does not work if you have a touch screen. Confirmed this by disabling touch.

Found a discussion on dicourse development.  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-experience-on-discourse-with-optional-touch-input/40190/12](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-experience-on-discourse-with-optional-touch-input/40190/12)

looks like there was an option sometime in the past, but it got removed, and still looking for a working automatic way to get this right.

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