Full text is not showing on tooltip in ie10

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Hi,

I am unable to display the text of tooltip(more than 500 characters) in IE10.

Thank you

Posted 29-Sep-14 18:44pm

sr1198

Updated 30-Sep-14 0:34am

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Samatha Reddy G 30-Sep-14 1:04am

Hey it is working in my project in IE10 browser once you check in your code carefully.
as per my knowledge there is script error in your page. did you check in cosole are you getting any script errors.

otherwise one you update that line with your questijon

sr1198 30-Sep-14 6:17am

Hi,

my fault i am giving more than 500 characters in the text.i found that ie10 cannot show tooltip text more than 518 haracters. Is that true?

Thank you

Samatha Reddy G 30-Sep-14 8:22am

The max length of the tooltip is only 512 characters. you need to create custom tooltip otherwise instead of taking tool tip take one div and display data on that when you put mouse over on that,

/\jmot 30-Sep-14 2:09am

write the actual error occurs to the code, please be more specific.

sr1198 30-Sep-14 6:15am

Here is the scenario

While am binding data to the gridview, in rowdatabound event i am giving tooltip text to a label so that i can display the minimum text and showing the entire text on mouse hovering on the label.

Now when i am mouse hovering on label it works fine untile the text extends more than 500 characters. in my google research i found that ie10 cannot show tooltip text more than 518 haracters.

Now here is my question is ther any possiblity shwoing morethan 500 or 600 characters using tooltip

Thank you

Sinisa Hajnal 30-Sep-14 7:02am

If you have such long text, don't use default tooltip. Set the text in a div and show that div on hover (simple CSS) - additional advantage is that you can style it as you will...and that there are finished solutions for that in jQueryUI, Bootstrap, Kickstarter and any number of other frameworks.

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2014-09-30T01:30:00

It would appear that is the limit for IE. However, it would be hard for anyone to read that much information anyway because of how quickly the tooltip disappears.

I would suggest using a jquery plugin to display the tooltip. There are some nice free ones that are easy to use if you google for some.

Samatha Reddy G · Answer 2 · 2014-09-30T02:19:00

Solution 2

In this link they provided max length of the tool tip is 512 characters

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms534683(v=vs.85).aspx[^]

Hey once you try this here custom tooltip is created.

http://dotnetnsqlcorner.blogspot.in/2012/04/show-long-text-in-tooltip.html[^]

Posted 30-Sep-14 2:19am

Samatha Reddy G