22.9 Providing hover text for links in HTML

Hover text in HTML is produced from the value of the HTML title attribute of a tag (usually a <span> tag) that encloses the term. The attribute value may not contain a carriage return, nor the symbols <, >, ", ', or &.

DITA2Go provides mouseover hover text for all cross references and links to topics in your DITA source, including those added by @keyref, internal scope only:

If an element has an @href attribute either because of the element type (such as <xref>) or because it has a @keyref to a <keydef> with an @href, DITA2Go can use the reference for HTML title attribute text. The exceptions are:

No special settings are needed to enable hover text for DITA links and cross references.

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Sibling Topics:

22.1 Deciding which type of output to produce

22.2 Setting up an HTML project

22.3 Including starting code and entity references

22.4 Supplying values for the <head> element

22.5 Specifying HTML <body> attributes

22.6 Specifying document-wide properties for HTML

22.7 Defining text colors for HTML

22.8 Importing HTML files as insets

22.10 Generating XHTML for Confluence 4.x

22.11 Exporting content for database input

22.12 Specifying a starting topic for HTML or XHTML

22.13 Using framesets

22.14 Passing W3C validation tests

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