Custom IE8 tooltip for title="tooltip description"

Question

there is any possibility use css in order to style title="title description" on IE8? without use jQuery? something like:

html

<a href="#" title="tooltip description">this must be a toltip</a>

css

 a[title]:hover{
        background: lime;
        border:1px solid #eaeaea;
        opacity: .6; 
        position: absolute;
        }

possible duplicate of [Is it possible to format an HTML tooltip?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/484137/is-it-possible-to-format-an-html-tooltip) — Denys Séguret, Apr 05 '13 at 08:32

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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No, the title popup is managed by the browser. Its content isn't even interpreted as HTML and you can't style it.

If you want a styled popup, you have to generate it yourself using some javascript. In this related question I show how you can do it simply (here with jQuery but you can adapt to vanilla js).

Demonstration

edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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answered Apr 05 '13 at 08:29

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Custom IE8 tooltip for title="tooltip description"

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