Tooltips: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:43, 11 January 2016

Semantic MediaWiki

To create tooltips in your wiki, you can simply use the info function that is included in Semantic MediaWiki. This is a Semantic MediaWiki example This is a tooltip.

Extension

The Tooltip extension has it's latest code on the 'Talk' page, and is superseded by extensions like Extension:Lingo.

Template and Parser function

Trying the template and parser function approach works like this

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 == Semantic MediaWiki ==
-To create tooltips in your wiki, you can simply use the '''info''' function that is included in Semantic MediaWiki.
+To create tooltips in your wiki, you can simply use the '''info''' function that is [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Adding_tooltips included in Semantic MediaWiki].
+This is a Semantic MediaWiki example {{#info:This is a tooltip.}}
-There would normally be a tooltip here{{#info:This is a tooltip.}}
+== Extension ==
+The Tooltip extension has it's latest code on the 'Talk' page, and is superseded by extensions like [[mw:Extension:Lingo|Extension:Lingo]].
-== Tooltip Extension ==
+== Template and Parser function ==
-There is an extension <ref>http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Tooltip</ref> that allows you to add tooltips via tag or parser function.
+Trying the template and parser function approach works like this
-Using the tag like this <pre><tooltip text="body text" x=xoffset y=yoffset>tooltip text</tooltip></pre> produces UNIQab115884f90c6e0b-tooltip-00000005-QINU errors
-Trying the template and parser function approach produces fatal errors because methods in the Parser class have changed.
 {{tooltip | base text | tooltip text}}