# Pop up snippets on this board

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-snippets-on-this-board/325818>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 11, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-snippets-on-this-board/325818 "2005-10-11T23:32:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![teszeract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9dc877/32.png) [@teszeract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teszeract)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-snippets-on-this-board/325818/1 "2005-10-11T23:32:36Z")

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I have a question. When the popups with a snippet of the first post appears when you mouseover – is this preloaded or fetched from the server on the mouseover?

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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:** [October 11, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-snippets-on-this-board/325818/2 "2005-10-11T23:42:38Z")

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They are loaded when the page is loaded, and are coded in the HTML as follows:

```auto

<td class="alt1"><img src="images/statusicon/thread_new.gif" alt="" border="" /></td>
	
	<td class="alt1Active" id="t339318" **title="I have a question. When the popups with a snippet of the first post appears when you mouseover -- is this preloaded or fetched from the server on the mouseover?"** >
		
		<div>
			<span style="float:right">
				
				
				
			</span>
			<a href="showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=339318"><img class="inlineimg" src="images/buttons/firstnew.gif" alt="Go to first new post" border="0" /></a>
			
			
			<a href="showthread.php?t=339318"><strong>Pop up snippets on this board</strong></a>

```

Your browser then displays the TITLE information in a tooltip.

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-snippets-on-this-board/325818/3 "2005-10-12T07:21:48Z")

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Moved to ATMB.

- **xash**  
General Questions Moderator