# Increase mouseover display time

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/increase-mouseover-display-time/7936>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 1, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/increase-mouseover-display-time/7936 "2014-02-01T17:10:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/increase-mouseover-display-time/7936/1 "2014-02-01T17:10:33Z")

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I have some mouseover text displayed but the default time is too short to read it all. Is there a setting where this can be increased? Default seems to be about 5 seconds.

Also, is it possible to split the text from one long displayed string into shorter paragraphs?

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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/increase-mouseover-display-time/7936/2 "2014-02-01T20:56:34Z")

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OK so I have answered my second question, by using HTML in the text field. Still would like to increase the display time.

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**Author:** ![Duffanator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/duffanator/32/3560_2.png) [@Duffanator](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Duffanator)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/increase-mouseover-display-time/7936/3 "2014-02-03T14:40:06Z")

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You can add the following code to your client start up script:

```auto
from javax.swing import ToolTipManager
ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().setDismissDelay(20000)
```

This will set the tool tips to stay up for 20 seconds but you can change it to whatever time you see fit.

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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/increase-mouseover-display-time/7936/4 "2014-02-03T21:20:35Z")

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Awesome, sorted, thanks.