114304 2013-04-09 13:21:19 -0700 Provide a way to prevent tooltip containing the full text over truncated text 2025-01-14 04:20:11 -0800 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit WebCore Misc. 528+ (Nightly build) Unspecified Unspecified UNCONFIRMED https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66178 P2 Critical --- 0 dtrebbien webkit-unassigned bugged.dev dtrebbien mitz oliverwilliams345 philip simon.fraser vladgrynchyshyn woodlxf00 oldest_to_newest 872046 0 dtrebbien 2013-04-09 13:21:19 -0700 Bug 66178 added an option to automatically show tooltips (with the full text) over text that is truncated via text-overflow:ellipsis. This option seems to have been recently enabled by default in Safari 6 and WebKit nightly (r147999 built on 09 April 2013 tested), but not in Chrome 26.0.1410.63 or Chrome 28.0.1469.0 canary. An app that I am writing displays its own tooltip containing the full text if truncated. So, in Safari 6 and WebKit nightly, I get two tooltips containing the full text. This "two tooltip" issue has been mentioned on www-style recently as well: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Apr/0013.html Please provide an option to disable this tooltip so that I can use my JavaScript tooltip solution rather than WebKit's native tooltip, which in many cases is not as good as the JavaScript tooltip because the WebKit tooltip cannot be customized. 872063 1 mitz 2013-04-09 13:49:48 -0700 If the setting is on by default then that’s a bug. 872107 2 dtrebbien 2013-04-09 15:45:13 -0700 The following command: defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Defaults.plist WebKitShowsToolTipOverTruncatedText shows that the default is TRUE (Safari 6.0.3, Mac OS 10.7.5). 872270 3 dtrebbien 2013-04-09 16:17:05 -0700 I found that changing the value of the WebKitShowsToolTipOverTruncatedText key to FALSE does not disable the tooltip. Instead, if I change the value of the com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2ShowsToolTipOverTruncatedText key from TRUE (the default) to FALSE, then the native tooltip is disabled. 872359 4 mitz 2013-04-09 16:35:20 -0700 (In reply to comment #2) > The following command: > > defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Defaults.plist WebKitShowsToolTipOverTruncatedText > > shows that the default is TRUE (Safari 6.0.3, Mac OS 10.7.5). I see. These are Safari defaults, not WebKit’s. WebKit defaults (in both WebKit1 and WebKit2) to having this feature turned off. 872360 5 mitz 2013-04-09 16:37:28 -0700 Just to clarify, by “JavaScript tooltip”, do you mean a DOM element styled to look like a tooltip or a native tooltip somehow triggered by JavaScript (how?)? 872724 6 dtrebbien 2013-04-10 04:47:09 -0700 (In reply to comment #5) > Just to clarify, by “JavaScript tooltip”, do you mean a DOM element styled to look like a tooltip or a native tooltip somehow triggered by JavaScript (how?)? I mean a DOM element styled to look like a tooltip. 872922 7 philip 2013-04-10 10:09:45 -0700 I experienced this problem as well and sent a note to the www-style list to clarify the desired result in the spec. As far as I can tell, Webkit nightly and Safari 6 are the only browsers that show a tooltip for `overflow:ellipsis`. Anthony Ticknor put together this test case for me, perhaps it will be helpful: http://jsfiddle.net/apticknor/kc444/ 1469309 8 bugged.dev 2018-10-15 10:34:24 -0700 On 2013-04-09 this was confirmed as a bug by mitz@webkit.org Will this be getting fixed? It looks like it may have slipped through the cracks. 1858520 9 ap 2022-04-05 12:56:02 -0700 *** Bug 238808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 2080421 10 woodlxf00 2024-12-09 22:23:33 -0800 Any progress with it? We want to use a customized-style tooltip instead of the native one. 2087023 11 vladgrynchyshyn 2025-01-14 04:20:11 -0800 You can cover the original text with a transparent element to prevent the original tooltip from appearing. If left position of the custom tooltip match to the left of the text, just use part of the popup itself (make it transparent).