Template:Tooltip/doc

Purpose
This template allows a Tooltip to be associated with a particular word or phrase, that is when the mouse (or other pointing device) is over the target word or phrase, another word or phrase pops up in a box.

Usage
Gives...


 * (J. F. R.)

And

Gives...

Many of these portraits bore inscriptions, the most famous of which was Turgot's line, “Eripuit fulmen coelo sceptrumque tyrannis.”

Parameters
Named parameters are available
 * first parameter $1, is named parameter target, ie.
 * second parameter $2, is named parameter texttip, ie.

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 * undefined

Applications
In Wikisource, this can be used to provide translations of foreign phrases in source material. These translations will be clearly differentiated from the source material itself since they pop up in a box. Another use would be to provide the author's full name when the source only provides initials, as in many 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica articles.