# Mousing over a thread in Opera

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**Created:** [March 6, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousing-over-a-thread-in-opera/232866 "2004-03-06T17:22:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousing-over-a-thread-in-opera/232866/1 "2004-03-06T17:22:05Z")

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It was discovered shortly after the update that under IE, one could hover his mouse over the thread title on the forum page and see the beginning of the OP in a little popup window. At the time, I said I couldn’t do it in Opera, and other corroborated this.

I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this, but if you mouse _just above_ or _just below_ the thread title on the forum page while using Opera, you get the beginning of the OP.

Now, I can’t speak for anyone else, but this saves me a lot of time. If I can get the gist of a thread without having to open it (and I’m currently on dialup), the server doesn’t have to work so hard… right?

Anyway, just pointing out something I had just discovered…

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousing-over-a-thread-in-opera/232866/2 "2004-03-06T17:29:15Z")

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Oddly enough, that works in IE too (6.0 under WinXP Pro). In fact, placing the cursor _anywhere_ in the block containing the title shows the thread preview text. Seems the mouseover script is tied not to the \<a\> tag of the title link, but rather to the \<td\> tag of the title block.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mousing-over-a-thread-in-opera/232866/3 "2004-03-06T17:51:14Z")

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Mosuing over the title block in Mozilla will bring up the first line.