Add line break within tooltips

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How can line breaks be added within a HTML tooltip?

I tried using <br/> and \n within the tooltip as follows:

<a href="#" title="Some long text <br/> Second line text \n Third line text">Hover me</a>

However, this was useless and I could see the literal text <br/> and \n within the tooltip. Any suggestions will be helpful.

27 Answers
\n

with the styling

.tooltip-inner {
    white-space: pre-line;
}

worked for me.

just use \n in title and add this css

.tooltip-inner {
    white-space: pre-wrap;
}

You can use bootstrap tooltip, and don't forget to set the html option to true.

<div id="tool"> tooltip</div>
$('#tool').tooltip({
     title: 'line one' +'<br />'+ 'line two',
     html: true
});
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>

So if you are using bootstrap4 then this will work.

<style>
   .tooltip-inner {
    white-space: pre-wrap;
   }

</style>

<script> 
    $(function () {
      $('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip()
    })
</script>

<a data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="auto" title=" first line &#010; next line" href= ""> Hover me </a>

If you are using in Django project then we can also display dynamic data in tooltips like:

<a class="black-text pb-2 pt-1" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="auto"  title="{{ post.location }} &#010; {{ post.updated_on }}" href= "{% url 'blog:get_user_profile' post.author.id %}">{{ post.author }}</a>

Just use the entity code &#xA; for a linebreak in a title attribute.

<a title="First Line &#xA;Second Line">Hover Me </a>

Just add this code snippet in your script:

    $(function () {
        $('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip()
    });

and ofcourse as mentioned in above answers the data-html should be "true". This will allow you to use html tags and formatting inside the value of title attribute.

AngularJS with Bootstrap UI Tolltip (uib-tooltip), has three versions of tool-tip:

uib-tooltip, uib-tooltip-template and uib-tooltip-html

- uib-tooltip takes only text and will escape any HTML provided
- uib-tooltip-html takes an expression that evaluates to an HTML string
- uib-tooltip-template takes a text that specifies the location of the template

In my case, I opted for uib-tooltip-html and there are three parts to it:

  1. configuration
  2. controller
  3. HTML

Example:

(function(angular) {

//Step 1: configure $sceProvider - this allows the configuration of $sce service.

angular.module('myApp', ['uib.bootstrap'])
       .config(function($sceProvider) {
           $sceProvider.enabled(false);
       });

//Step 2: Set the tooltip content in the controller

angular.module('myApp')
       .controller('myController', myController);

myController.$inject = ['$sce'];

function myController($sce) {
    var vm = this;
    vm.tooltipContent = $sce.trustAsHtml('I am the first line <br /><br />' +
                                         'I am the second line-break');

    return vm;
}

 })(window.angular);

//Step 3: Use the tooltip in HTML (UI)

<div ng-controller="myController as get">
     <span uib-tooltip-html="get.tooltipContent">other Contents</span>
</div>

For more information, please check here

Hi this code will work in all browser !!i used for new line in chrome and safari and ul li for IE

 function genarateMultiLIneCode(){
        var =values["a","b","c"];
        const liStart = '<li>';
              const liEnd = '</li>';
              const bullet = '&#8226; ';     
              var mergedString = ' ';
              const unOrderListStart='<ul>'
              const unOrderListEnd='</ul>'
              const fakeNewline = '&#013;&#010;';
              for (let i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
                   mergedString += liStart + bullet + values[i] + liEnd + fakeNewline;
              }
              const tempElement = document.createElement("div");
              tempElement.innerHTML = unOrderListStart + mergedString + unOrderListEnd;    
              return tempElement.innerText;
            }
        }

This css will help you.

    .tooltip {
      word-break: break-all;
    }

or if you want in one line

    .tooltip-inner {
      max-width: 100%;
    }

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