# Mouseover Demonstration **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 23, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-demonstration/446616 "2008-04-23T23:26:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-demonstration/446616/1 "2008-04-23T23:26:34Z")
[First let me begin with some backstory about why I’m asking this question. You see, it all started with some irrelevant minutia from way back when, which planted an idea in my head. And now, when my intro finally starts to sound like I might get to the point, the mouseover preview runs out.] The idea is to have this paragraph, which skips the backstory of why I’m posting and instead gets straight to the what, will be the text displayed in mousover despite being the second paragraph in the OP. It would be useful to know roughly how many chararacters mouseover preview displays, so I’m adding extra text here. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-demonstration/446616/2 "2008-04-23T23:27:34Z")
Way cool. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-demonstration/446616/3 "2008-04-23T23:28:31Z")
Glad to be of assistance.