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Tooltip vs Popup - What's the difference?

tooltip | popup |

As nouns the difference between tooltip and popup

is that tooltip is an element of a graphical user interface in the form of a box of text that appears when a cursor is made to hover over an item; normally used to explain the function of the item while popup is a pop-up.

tooltip

English

(wikipedia tooltip)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (graphical user interface) An element of a graphical user interface in the form of a box of text that appears when a cursor is made to hover over an item; normally used to explain the function of the item.

    • See also

    * toolbar

    popup

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia popup) (en noun)
  • a pop-up
  • a pop-up advertisement

    • See also

    * popup blocker