Tooltips and Titles

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• In addition to providing descriptive anchor text, it is sometimes helpful to provide additional context to explain links.
• This context can be particularly helpful when a link contains or consists of an image, icon, or another non-text element.
• Additional context can be provided as text using the HTML title attribute.
• Although the title attribute can be provided to any HTML element, it is often extremely useful as additional context or advisory text for clickable elements.
• Most browsers will display the text of a title attribute as a tooltip, meaning when a user hovers their cursor over an element, the text will appear in a small box near the cursor.
• To add tooltips to a clickable element like a link, add it as the title attribute.