Tooltips¶

Material for MkDocs makes it trivial to add tooltips to links, abbreviations and all other elements, which allows for implementing glossary-like functionality, as well as small hints that are shown when the user hovers or focuses an element.

Configuration¶

This configuration enables support for tooltips and abbreviations and allows to build a simple glossary, sourcing definitions from a central location. Add the following lines to mkdocs.yml:

markdown_extensions:
  - abbr
  - attr_list
  - pymdownx.snippets

See additional configuration options:

• Abbreviations
• Attribute Lists
• Snippets

Improved tooltips¶

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When improved tooltips are enabled, Material for MkDocs replaces the browser's rendering logic for title attribute with beautiful little tooltips. Add the following lines to mkdocs.yml:

theme:
  features:
    - content.tooltips

Now, tooltips will be rendered for the following elements:

• Content – elements with a title, permalinks and copy-to-clipboard button
• Header – home button, header title, color palette switch and repository link
• Navigation – links that are shortened with ellipsis, i.e. ...

Usage¶

Adding tooltips¶

The Markdown syntax allows to specify a title for each link, which will render as a beautiful tooltip when improved tooltips are enabled. Add a tooltip to a link with the following lines:

[Hover me](https://example.com "I'm a tooltip!")

Tooltips can also be added to link references:

[Hover me][example]

  [example]: https://example.com "I'm a tooltip!"

For all other elements, a title can be added by using the Attribute Lists extension:

:material-information-outline:{ title="Important information" }

Adding abbreviations¶

Abbreviations can be defined by using a special syntax similar to links and footnotes, starting with a * and immediately followed by the term or acronym to be associated in square brackets:

The HTML specification is maintained by the W3C.

*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
*[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium

Adding a glossary¶

The Snippets extension can be used to implement a simple glossary by moving all abbreviations in a dedicated file¹, and auto-append this file to all pages with the following configuration:

*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
*[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium

markdown_extensions:
  - pymdownx.snippets:
      auto_append:
        - includes/abbreviations.md