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Tooltips are the little blurbs that pop up when you hover over an element on a web page. They are typically taken from an element's "title" attribute.

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Tooltips on the /show-flags page for declined flags without a custom message show "StackOverflow.StackHtmlContent"

While searching for a declined flag with an apostrophe in the declining text, to test for this character-encoding bug (which, yes, is still an issue), I checked what the tooltip on the /show-flags ...
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Add ubiquitous timestamp hover to 'Last seen' information for moderators

After the profile page was made responsive, the Last seen information was intentionally made less granular except for ♦ moderators. We can still see when someone was last active a couple of minutes ...
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Show to what site the reputation belongs when hovering over the reputation counter on the top bar

I recently had a sinking feeling in my gut: my reputation had dropped by 1/3! Serves me right for posting crappy questions. But wait, it turns out that number is referring to each individual Stack ...
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Double quotes incorrectly encoded in flag resolution tooltip

When moderator adds custom description to the processed flag, such text is visible as a tooltip on post's flag page (link for staff to reproduce the issue): In case of double quotes they're rendered ...
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Is "required" tooltip on required fields legend required?

Recently the new "required" icon (a red star symbol) was added next to Title, Body, Tags words on Ask New Question page around all SE network. I think it's a good change for site UX. But do ...
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Please correct helpful flag tooltip in impact box

When hovering over "NN helpful flags" in the Impact box on the Activity page, the following tooltip text appears: Total number of raised flags marked useful Flags are marked "helpful&...
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Remove the 'resetting any rude or abusive flags' note from the rollback tooltip

The tooltip for the rollback button in a revision history is: sets the current revision to this version of the post, resetting any "rude or abusive" flags However, the 'resetting of red ...
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Improve wording of Community Wiki tooltip while editing a question

When editing a question as a ♦ moderator, you have the option to make it Community Wiki. However, as a reverse of Mod menu for Community Wiki answer thinks it's a question, the tooltip thinks it's ...
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Why are you telling me to undo my vote when my vote is locked in?

When I hover over the upvote or downvote arrows on a post where I have voted, I see the following tooltip "this answer is useful (click again to undo)". I never really noticed the phrase &...
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No string to translate "Expand to show all comments on this post, or add one of your own"

On ruSO we found that the source string for "Expand to show all comments on this post, or add one of your own" is absent in translation database. There's an old related post on MSE with ...
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Edge point for a diamond used as a popover arrow in tooltips should be slightly shifted

Recently I learned that a diamond shape is used for imitation of tooltip popover arrow: Animation was made on Suspicious voting tools page Looks like that to make an imitation more natural the edge ...
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Popover visibility issue in the stacks editor

In the Stacks editor, the popover on top becomes invisible when hovering over the tools icon, significantly when the editor menu block extends to the end of the page. Screenshot for reference: ...
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Remove hover text [tooltips] from 'vote' 'answer' and 'views'

Unless I'm missing something, there seems little point in having hover text for the three elements to the left of every question, as they simply repeat exactly what the element already says. There is ...
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Partially hidden tooltip on tag synonym page

When you're a moderator, the column with the awkwardly designed voting buttons on the tag synonyms page is hidden, because ♦ moderators don't need to vote on them; they can simply approve them. ...
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Make tooltip text ending on user tab sorting order consistent. Only the "participation" tab contains dot at the end

Tooltip for "participation" tab contains the . at the end, but there's no dot for all other tabs: I suggest to remove it here as well. Adding the dot to the all other instead I can't ...
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