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Rendering bug of HTML entity in hover text for tags guidance.

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There is a problem with HTML entities in the tag guidance text.

As you can see here I used an HTML entity (greek lowercase phi φ) to denote a technical quantity, and it shows nicely:

tag guidance snapshot

However in the hover text in tagged questions it appears not rendered, i.e. as &phi;, as you can see here:

hover text snapshot

Can you reproduce this? If it is not something related to my browser, it's probably a bug.

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This is something we either can't fix, or can't fix without significant effort. It's been a little while since I last checked what browser tooltips can do, but one thing they can't do is render HTML entities. That's up to your browser, not up to us. The way to fix it would be to use a custom tooltip, but we don't currently have the ability to do that.

The solution in this case is to move the paragraph containing that character into the tag's long wiki. The "usage guidance" section (which is what shows in that tooltip) is intended for exactly that — brief guidance on the usage of the tag. It's not intended for explanations of what the thing represented by the tag is — that's what the wiki is for.

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Thanks for the explanation. I'll refrain to enter HTML entities in guidance text in the future. A... (1 comment)
Thanks for the explanation. I'll refrain to enter HTML entities in guidance text in the future. A...
Lorenzo Donati‭ wrote over 1 year ago · edited over 1 year ago

Thanks for the explanation. I'll refrain to enter HTML entities in guidance text in the future.

As for what the guidance text is for, well in EE Codidact tags are often descriptive of a specific thing (e.g. a device, a circuit, a component, a parameter), not a general concept (yes, we have something like "repair" and "programming", but those are exceptions).

So understanding what that thing is is the first step to allow a user to know if that tag is suitable. Otherwise most users will simply whack a tag in their post based on a "keyword similarity" basis. I.e. the post mentions some voltage, then whack in the voltage tag. So we end up with kitchen sink tags that help nobody.

And that's where guidance text comes into play. Let's face it, users will maybe read the hover text when choosing a tag, the wiki probably not.