# Mouseover Preview Test

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-test/848171>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-test/848171 "2020-02-19T13:24:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**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:** [February 19, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-test/848171/1 "2020-02-19T13:24:23Z")

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[This text is NOT in the mouseover preview.]

This is the mouseover preview, which can show a fair amount of text so let’s make this sentence pretty long.

That is all.

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**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:** [February 19, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-test/848171/2 "2020-02-19T13:26:21Z")

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Erm, turns out this test wasn’t super helpful since I’m on my tablet. Did it work?

I’ll check later when I get to my computer.

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**Author:** ![Calavera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calavera/32/70_2.png) [@Calavera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calavera)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-test/848171/3 "2020-02-19T13:54:36Z")

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Worked great. Use square brackets to hide spoilerish things is a great tip.

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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-test/848171/4 "2020-02-19T14:05:25Z")

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I posted about this a while back ago. I thought I discovered something new only to be disappointed. [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=695697)

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**Author:** ![cram4dell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5e9695/32.png) [@cram4dell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cram4dell)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-test/848171/5 "2020-02-19T15:05:28Z")

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Yep. Works here, too, on my laptop.

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**Author:** ![ASGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@ASGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASGuy)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouseover-preview-test/848171/6 "2020-02-20T00:43:34Z")

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Running Firefox under Windows 7 (professional) and the preview does not include your bracketed text. In short, I think it worked as you expected.