How can I make hover text on wordpress as a free user

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  privateandanonymous · Member · Jul 10, 2021 at 9:35 am

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  I am wishing to make it so when people hover their mouse over words that a small box will appear with text in it.

  is there a way to do this using the basic free package for making a blog via wrodpress.com

  Thanks

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 10, 2021 at 1:38 pm

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  Hi there,

  This is possible, but you will need to use HTML code to do it. Specifically, you use the title attribute for this.

  https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_title.asp

  For example, this code:

  <p>This is an example of a <span title="A tooltip is text that appears when you hover over other text">tooltip</span></p>

  will produce this (hoping this works in the forums :) )

  <p>This is an example of a <span title=”A tooltip is text that appears when you hover over other text”>tooltip</span></p>

  To add custom HTML like this to a post you need to use the HTML block:

  https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/custom-html-block/

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 10, 2021 at 1:39 pm

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  Nope, it doesn’t work here in the forums :)

  But when you add that in a post or page on your site it should.