Help:Tooltips

On WoWWiki, there are several important templates that work together in a unique way to show tooltips when you mouseover a link (assuming you have JavaScript support in your browser).

Because of these special relationships, this help page will try to go further in-depth on how to use these templates so they work well together.

{{Item}}, {{Loot}} and {{Tooltip}}

If you want an item link to show a tooltip, you need to use the {{item}} or {{loot}} template. NOTE

Don't use {{item}} tooltip inside {{tooltip}} or {{settip}}.

To create a {{item}} link for an item, you can use the following format:

• The only parameter required is the name of the item.
• Include an |icon= argument to have an icon appear.

To create a {{loot}} link for an item, you can use the following format:

• The template name indicates the item is loot.
• The first argument is the quality of a given item (the exception is for enchants which should use "enchant").
• The second argument is the name of a given item's article.
• The third argument can be used to hide disambiguations, or different page names.

{{item}} Example	Result	{{loot}} Example	Result
{{item|<Frostmourne>}}	Frostmourne	{{loot|<Artifact>|<Frostmourne>}}	[Frostmourne]
{{item|<Warp Slicer>}}	[Warp Slicer]	{{loot|<Legendary>|<Warp Slicer>}}	[Warp Slicer]
{{item|<Azuresong Mageblade>}}	[Azuresong Mageblade]	{{loot|<Epic>|<Azuresong Mageblade>}}	[Azuresong Mageblade]
{{item|<Cruel Barb>}}	[Cruel Barb]	{{loot|<Rare>|<Cruel Barb>}}	[Cruel Barb]
{{item|<Archeus>|<icon=>}}	[Archeus]	{{loot|<Uncommon>|<Archeus>}}	[Archeus]
{{item|<Linen Cloth>|<icon=>}}	[Linen Cloth]	{{loot|<Common>|<Linen Cloth>}}	[Linen Cloth]
{{item|<Poor-quality item>}}	[Cedar Walking Stick]	{{loot|<Poor>|<Poor-quality item>}}	[Cedar Walking Stick]
		{{loot|<enchant>|<Enchant Weapon - Fiery Weapon>}}	[Enchant Weapon - Fiery Weapon]

If the item is on a disambiguation page, you can pass the page name as the second argument and the item name as the third argument:

{{item}} Example	Result	{{loot}} Example	Result
{{item|<Corruption (sword)>|<Corruption>}}	[Corruption]	{{loot|<Rare>|<Corruption (sword)>|<Corruption>}}	[Corruption]

If you want an item article to show a tooltip (and you know you do) when a loot link points to it, make sure to add a {{tooltip}} template with the following minimum parameters

To create a {{tooltip}} link for an item, you can use the following format:

• The template name indicates the item has a tooltip.
• The | mode= argument is a parameter value passed through from other templates.
• The | args= argument is a parameter value passed through from other templates.
• The | width= argument is the tooltip width. Typically 18em.
• The | name= argument is the name of the item in the game.
• The | quality= argument is the item quality, passed to {{quality}} to generate formatted item name.
• The | bind= argument is the binding type: BoE, BoU or BoP.

So at minimum the tooltip should look like this:

<onlyinclude>{{tooltip
  | mode={{mode|}}
  | args={{args|}}
  | width=18em
  | name=Cruel Barb
  | quality=Rare
  | bind=BoP
}}</onlyinclude>

See Template talk:Tooltip for complete details on all the various parameters to fill out a complete tooltip.

Things not to do

• Don't make the width wider than 18em. The maximum supported width for hover tooltips is TBD.
• Don't put extra linebreaks in your parameter contents:
  • Bad:

    | attrib=+4 Strength<br>

    +3 Agility<br>

    +5 Stamina

  • Good:

    | attrib=+4 Strength<br>+3 Agility<br>+5 Stamina

If an item article does not have a tooltip or the tooltip is improperly formatted or missing required parameters, the tooltip will show an error

Example (move your mouse pointer over the link)

[Imaginary item]

You can use the following item to test the contents of various {{tooltip}} parameters

[Test loot]

{{Mob}} and {{Mobbox}}

To show the image and basic info for an mob, use {{Mob}} to link to the mob page. This template just passes info to the {{NPC}} template below (faction= is always "Combat").

To create an {{Mob}} link for an mob, you can use the following format:

• The template name indicates the target article is about a NPC.
• The first argument is the name of the NPC's article.
• The second argument is the title of the NPC.

Example	Result
{{Mob|Alexander Calder|Warlock Trainer}}	Alexander Calder <Warlock Trainer>
{{Mob|Lord Victor Nefarius|Lord of Blackrock|level=??+}}	Lord Victor Nefarius <Lord of Blackrock>

Mobbox info to be added...

{{NPC}} and {{Npcbox}}

To show the image and basic info for an NPC or mob, use {{NPC}} to link to the NPC page.

To create an {{NPC}} link for an NPC, you can use the following format:

• The template name indicates the target article is about a NPC.
• The first argument is the faction the NPC belongs to (Alliance, Horde, or Neutral).
• The second argument is the name of the NPC's article.
• The third argument is the title of the NPC.

Example	Result
{{NPC|Alliance|Alexander Calder|Warlock Trainer}}	Alexander Calder <Warlock Trainer>
{{NPC||Andormu|Keepers of Time|level=70+}}	Andormu <Keepers of Time>

Npcbox info to be added...

{{Quest}}, {{Questlong}}, or {{Questclass}}; and {{Questbox}}

Info to be added...

{{Coords}}

Info to be added...