# Test: Hide mouse over on tooltip using brackets

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-mouse-over-on-tooltip-using-brackets/468098>\
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**Created:** [October 15, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-mouse-over-on-tooltip-using-brackets/468098 "2008-10-15T22:00:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-mouse-over-on-tooltip-using-brackets/468098/1 "2008-10-15T22:00:16Z")

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[Nothing shows up in the tooltip if I contain it within brackets? Let’s find out…  
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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-mouse-over-on-tooltip-using-brackets/468098/2 "2008-10-15T22:01:30Z")

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Cool!

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**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-mouse-over-on-tooltip-using-brackets/468098/3 "2008-10-15T22:34:48Z")

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I saw no mouseover text. Handy for spoilerific opening posts.

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-mouse-over-on-tooltip-using-brackets/468098/4 "2008-10-15T23:51:34Z")

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Or ASCII goatse.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-mouse-over-on-tooltip-using-brackets/468098/5 "2008-10-17T20:48:27Z")

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never mind

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**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-mouse-over-on-tooltip-using-brackets/468098/6 "2008-10-17T21:22:04Z")

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I’m not willing to start another thread to test this, but what if you begin the post with an open and close bracket ?

Will that do a full stop on the tooltip text or will the mouseover text pick up after the close bracket?

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**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:** [October 17, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-hide-mouse-over-on-tooltip-using-brackets/468098/7 "2008-10-17T22:04:47Z")

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It will pick up after the close bracket

I wish more of our longwinded dopers would use the brackets. In particular it is useful for those posts that have 2 paragraphs of introductory exposition before getting to the point. You put brackets on the exposition and only the meat of the post shows up in mouseover.