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Reputation: 16782

Disable mouse over information for HTML elements

In both Chrome and Firefox when I move the mouse over the elements (ie. div, img, button) I get a small tool tip in the bottom right or left hand corner with something like example.com/11.jpg. I have already removed all the titles, so I know these aren't title related. What is this called and how do I get rid of this functionality?

Strange tooltip

Upvotes: 2

Views: 11716

Answers (4)

Annoyed Twitch Viewer
Annoyed Twitch Viewer

Reputation: 1

It is extremely annoying to not be able to turn this off. As it turns out, Twitch has started making the entire video covered with links, so when you display a Twitch Live stream, the bottom portion of the screen is covered with this popup. There is no place on the screen to put the cursor where the bottom of the screen is not covered.

I would suggest that this is misuse of links by twitch, but never the less, having twitch do this calls for the browser to disable this feature so that we can see the bloody video.

Ok. the correct answer for Twitch misbehavior is browser.chrome.toolbar_tips false.

Thanks for listening.

Upvotes: 0

Ludicrous Lummox
Ludicrous Lummox

Reputation: 11

For firefox, enter url: about:config Search for keyword: 'toolips' Boolean Value = False Voila! ... no more mouse-over url pop-ups

Upvotes: 1

juan.facorro
juan.facorro

Reputation: 9930

I do not recommend doing this, but you could change all your links (<a href=""></a>) to be rendered as other elements (i.e. <span></span>) an associate a url redirection behavior with jQuery.

This fiddle shows a way you could do it.

Take into account that this will force the client to process all links in a page every time it is loaded, which brings some overhead on the loading. But if this is something you feel you must do then this would be one way to do it.

I would test it in all browsers to see how it performs, since I've had some issues in older versions of IE when deleting/replacing html elements, because of the implementation of that browser when manipulating the DOM.

Upvotes: 1

kapa
kapa

Reputation: 78681

The tooltips will only appear when you hover over an <a href=""> element. They show the URL the link points to.

As far as I know it cannot be turned off. For Firefox, there seems to be a plugin (Status-4-Evar) to restore the old functionality, but of course it is up to the user whether he wants to install it.

The following links seem to support what I say:

If there is no way for the user to disable this feature, I'm sure the website cannot disable it either.

Upvotes: 2

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