# Can i make hover text?

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**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [6 September 2023 17:05 UTC](https://narrat.discourse.group/t/can-i-make-hover-text/127 "2023-09-06T17:05:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [6 September 2023 17:05 UTC](https://narrat.discourse.group/t/can-i-make-hover-text/127/1 "2023-09-06T17:05:20Z")

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can i make hover text for a word in a bit of dialog? Like just some extra context for terms.

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**Author:** ![morrysillusion](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/narrat.discourse.group/morrysillusion/32/41_2.png) [@morrysillusion](https://narrat.discourse.group/u/morrysillusion)\
**Post date:** [6 September 2023 23:19 UTC](https://narrat.discourse.group/t/can-i-make-hover-text/127/2 "2023-09-06T23:19:34Z")

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just commenting to say id love to do this too- if its a thing. but if not would be cool if it could be implemented. saw it in the game corruobserver and it was useful for adding context/info.

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**Post date:** [7 September 2023 08:27 UTC](https://narrat.discourse.group/t/can-i-make-hover-text/127/3 "2023-09-07T08:27:45Z")

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There’s the tooltip feature which is exactly that, but I’m not sure it ever was documented… I think the default test games has them setup in the config, but recently I saw they didn’t seem to appear, so I’ll need to look into fixing what’s wrong and documenting it  
But yes there’s a feature for it

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**Post date:** [7 September 2023 08:29 UTC](https://narrat.discourse.group/t/can-i-make-hover-text/127/4 "2023-09-07T08:29:35Z")

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They can be setup in a tooltips file like this one in the default game

> <https://github.com/liana-p/narrat-engine/blob/main/packages/narrat/examples/games/default/data/tooltips.yaml>

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**Post date:** [7 September 2023 11:05 UTC](https://narrat.discourse.group/t/can-i-make-hover-text/127/5 "2023-09-07T11:05:00Z")

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ty ily ;w;

I got it to recognize the text “@@bread” by adding it to the config.yaml list but it doesnt actually do the tooltip part just yet, i can edit it using the tooltip css stuff tho so its definitely in there somewhere  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/narrat/original/1X/c68177e5d6f310b7f211d208488a1bfd6e2be42d.png)  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/narrat/original/1X/bc04430ca91cda90ab16323ae83c2f3b1eddd93f.png)

tbh i just assume its the existing issue that makes them not appear

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**Post date:** [7 September 2023 12:11 UTC](https://narrat.discourse.group/t/can-i-make-hover-text/127/6 "2023-09-07T12:11:26Z")

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Oh, hot damn, this is a gamechanger!

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**Post date:** [7 September 2023 12:43 UTC](https://narrat.discourse.group/t/can-i-make-hover-text/127/7 "2023-09-07T12:43:45Z")

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Yeah I recently noticed them not appearing, there’s probably a bug. I’ll look at it when I get a bi of time to.

But otherwise it should work fine like that
