# Why don't quotes appear in mouse-overs?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-quotes-appear-in-mouse-overs/594054>\
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**Created:** [August 25, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-quotes-appear-in-mouse-overs/594054 "2011-08-25T16:44:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-quotes-appear-in-mouse-overs/594054/1 "2011-08-25T16:44:47Z")

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I’m assuming it’s a limitation with the board itself, and is probably not fixable. But Hell, I don’t know. It _might_ be. That’s why I’m asking.

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**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-quotes-appear-in-mouse-overs/594054/2 "2011-08-25T22:12:44Z")

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This has been annoying me since the beginning of time.  
And, on some days, earlier than that.

Also - I seem to recall something screw about spoiler tags too…like the text DOES show up…  
(Or maybe not…I need sleep, and am too lazy to research it right now.)

-D/a

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**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-quotes-appear-in-mouse-overs/594054/3 "2011-08-27T10:45:54Z")

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I’m bumping this in the hopes of an admin comes along. It’s a mild annoyance, nothing more, but I see a lot of threads where the mouse over says something similar to:

\*Check out what this poster said:

I don’t agree with that, so I said:

And then poster replied with this:\*

And that’s all you see on the mouse over. I have no idea what it’ supposed to be about. Just a mild annoyance though, the click through won’t kill me. But it would be cool if there was someway to put the quote coding in the mouse over.

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-quotes-appear-in-mouse-overs/594054/5 "2011-08-27T13:54:46Z")

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> Why don’t quotes appear in mouse-overs?

Because they’re afraid of mice!

(Do you want a mouse over you?)