Tooltip on general text in markdown

[jensmcatanho]

Current behavior

You can only add a tooltip to a text if it's a link like this:

[Boostnote](https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote "This is Boostnote's repository").

Boostnote

Expected behavior

I would like to be able to add a text on hover to texts that are not links, something like this:

[Boostnote]("Hover text")

Steps to reproduce

N/A

Environment

• Boostnote version: 0.13.0
• OS version and name: macOS Mojave

[Flexo013]

This can be achieved with the following syntax. Note that this will highlight this word through the entire note.

### Abbreviation
The HTML specification
is maintained by the W3C.
*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
*[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium

A workaround to get this functionality right away is to use:

[Display text](a "Hover text")

The link a won't do anything.

Making the link field optional could be a nice feature to no longer need this workaround.

P.S.: I recommend you update your Boostnote to the latest version 0.15.3

[jensmcatanho]

I tried the abbreviation syntax but I wanted to highlight just one word. I updated to the latest version and will use the workaround for now, thanks!

[Mqxx]

Hey just use this:

[id1]: ## "your hover text"

This is a [hover text][id1] example.

Or this:

This is a [hover text](## "your hover text") example.

Works very well

[gildoneto]

This can be achieved with the following syntax. Note that this will highlight this word through the entire note.

### Abbreviation
The HTML specification
is maintained by the W3C.
*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
*[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium

A workaround to get this functionality right away is to use:

[Display text](a "Hover text")

The link a won't do anything.

Making the link field optional could be a nice feature to no longer need this workaround.

P.S.: I recommend you update your Boostnote to the latest version 0.15.3

Helped me a lot. Thanks!!!

[piiskop]

None of the recommendations really work as in each case, a link is created that really does something if i click it. It either directs to the page a that doesn't exist or it directs to the position ## that adds a direction to the browsing history. In addition, it looks like a link.

[Mqxx]

None of the recommendations really work as in each case, a link is created that really does something if i click it. It either directs to the page a that doesn't exist or it directs to the position ## that adds a direction to the browsing history. In addition, it looks like a link.

It is possible that they changed how GitHub handles the double #. In my case it worked, but I also haven’t used it in a while.

[piiskop]

GitHub? The browser handles links, not GitHub.

[Harikarandev]

hovering works for me this above suggested idea but i want to bring some stylings for the in the hovered text like bold new line and italic where i use same markdown bold italic

[Mqxx]

GitHub? The browser handles links, not GitHub.

@piiskop That's not entirely true... GitHub handles how the Markdown get's converted to HTML, so GitHub can also decide how links get "handled" or let's say "rendered".