how to enable pop-up text meaning

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  parijatovacha · Member · Apr 21, 2015 at 8:12 am

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  How to insert brief description for parts of text. Like say I include a word “HorA” the meaning of which is not known to all the readers. So I want that the reader places or hovers his cursor on the word & its meaning pops up.

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  parijatovacha · Member · Apr 21, 2015 at 8:14 am

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  How to insert brief description for parts of text. Like say I include a word “HorA” the meaning of which is not known to all the readers. So I want that the reader places or hovers his cursor on the word & its meaning pops up.

  The blog I need help with is parijatovacha.wordpress.com.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Apr 21, 2015 at 8:51 am

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  Hi there. You have to do this in the text/html view of the editor, using the abbr or span tag and title attribute.

  The abbr tag is specifically for abbreviations/acronyms and will underline the acronym with a dotted line. span won’t change the formatting in any way.

  I’ll give an example using span. Type your sentence in the visual editor, then switch to the text editor and add the two span tags (including arrow brackets) on either side of the word. Make sure the second tag includes the forward-slash or it won’t work. Just replace both instances of span with abbr according to your preference:

  <span title="Your explanation here">word or phrase requiring explanation</span>

  You can see here for more info: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_quotation_elements.asp