How to add title on a HTML symbol

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Hi,
I want to add a title on a specific html symbol like:

✯ i want to point over it and see "star" as a tooltip or title.

What I have tried:

i used <dfn title="star"> ✯ </dfn> but it makes it italic.

Posted 6-Jun-18 10:05am

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Updated 6-Jun-18 10:29am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2018-06-06T10:30:00

Solution 1

That's just the browser's default styling for the <dfn> tag.

You can either override the default styling, or use a tag with no default style, like <span>.

Span: ✯
Dfn with inline style: ✯

HTML

Span: <span title="star">✯</span>
Dfn with inline style: <dfn title="star" style="font-style:normal;">✯</dfn>

Posted 6-Jun-18 10:30am

Richard Deeming

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Member 13861771 6-Jun-18 17:53pm

Thank you. I forget span element and good to know that styling.