# Duration of rollover-text in these boards. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 20, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duration-of-rollover-text-in-these-boards/241042 "2004-04-20T16:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FX45\_4Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4bbf92/32.png) [@FX45\_4Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FX45_4Ever)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duration-of-rollover-text-in-these-boards/241042/1 "2004-04-20T16:07:40Z")
Subject: Duration of rollover in these boards. (If this needs to be moved, thank you mods…) Can we extend the life of the pre-view text box that appears when we roll the mouse over the link to each thread? Is this a personal setting I have to set on my PC? I am using Windows 2000 with IE version 6. The few seconds it appears is not enough time to read it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duration-of-rollover-text-in-these-boards/241042/2 "2004-04-20T16:15:17Z")
This would probably get more attention in “About This Message Board”. Maybe ask a mod to move it along for you. ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duration-of-rollover-text-in-these-boards/241042/3 "2004-04-20T17:54:56Z")
The box is a product of Javascript so the size depends on the script itself not your browser. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duration-of-rollover-text-in-these-boards/241042/4 "2004-04-20T23:57:04Z")
It’ll stay visible as long as you keep moving your mouse slightly. ---
**Author:** ![Hauky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/0ea827/32.png) [@Hauky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hauky)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duration-of-rollover-text-in-these-boards/241042/5 "2004-04-21T00:21:14Z")
The box is actually just a tooltip\*, so it’s limited by tooltip duration time. This setting is global throughout Windows, and as far as I know you can’t change it. - It’s caused by the “title” attribute of the table cell that the thread’s subject line is displayed in. Displaying it as a tooltip is up to the browser; I believe in Opera it appears in the status bar instead, for example. Disclaimer: I haven’t used Opera in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![aahala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@aahala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aahala)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duration-of-rollover-text-in-these-boards/241042/6 "2004-04-21T00:42:11Z")
This question was asked on these boards the last few months. I don’t have a link to the thread, but from memory someone found a solution. The solution though looked so complicated, it seemed not worth the effort. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duration-of-rollover-text-in-these-boards/241042/7 "2004-04-21T19:58:34Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > It’ll stay visible as long as you keep moving your mouse slightly. Just do this. It’s simple and effective.