# Tooltips on Perspective table columns/cells? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** scripting, perspective, ignition81, vision\ **Created:** [August 1, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-on-perspective-table-columns-cells/77237 "2023-08-01T16:43:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ian.sebryk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ian.sebryk/32/49319_2.png) [@ian.sebryk](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ian.sebryk)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-on-perspective-table-columns-cells/77237/1 "2023-08-01T16:43:55Z")
my overlords require tooltips on table column headers. i found a post indicating that such things are possible in the Vision world on 'Power Tables' (™) > [@Power Table Tooltip](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-tooltip/11278/3): > > You can add it with the configureCell extension function. but we're exclusively Perspective, so `configureCell` extension is not in our toolbag. is there a way to create tooltips for Perspective tables? i half want a 👍 answer, because: cool and useful, and half want 👎 because: feature creep on already overloaded project. for the sole sake of pleasing the overlords-who-hold-purse-strings, please be 👍 FYI: this would just be a simple `title` attr in any HTML element... so if there's a way to hook into that... ---
**Author:** ![kyler.kamyszek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@kyler.kamyszek](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kyler.kamyszek)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-on-perspective-table-columns-cells/77237/2 "2023-08-01T17:45:36Z")
Tooltips aren't available for rows/columns/cells of tables. There are a few ways people have done it with mouseOver event and x,y positions, but I think they break down when the scroll bar is active and not at the top. > [@Ignition-Perspective Table- Mouse Over Value](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-perspective-table-mouse-over-value/63759/11): > > I looked at this a little bit, but I didn’t come up with as clean a solution as @victordcq for this application, but nevertheless, I figured I would go ahead and post what I had developed in case the direction could be of use to somebody. def runAction(self, event): #============================================== # self.props.columns[0].strictWidth = True # self.props.columns[1].strictWidth = True # self.props.columns[2].strictWidth = False #============================================== self.… If the powers at be are wanting more description on the columns, you could implement a label somewhere that changes text and use the prop.selection property to determine the row/column that is selected to change that label. ---
**Author:** ![ian.sebryk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ian.sebryk/32/49319_2.png) [@ian.sebryk](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ian.sebryk)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-on-perspective-table-columns-cells/77237/3 "2023-08-01T17:53:08Z")
yeah. i was digging a bit and thought i could populate the header cells with label components whose text is pulled from the column header name. feels like kind of a clunk, but also seems a relatively simple workaround. the trick will be not making the headers 400px tall... 🙂 i'll tinker a bit and see if that works. also thank you for helping me kill feature creep.... as i... continue... to... tinker....... 🥹 ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-on-perspective-table-columns-cells/77237/4 "2023-08-01T19:54:14Z")
> [@ian.sebryk](#): > > not making the headers 400px tall. At least then you won't need tool tips? You can just put the whole description in the header text 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![reto.kunz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6a8cbe/32.png) [@reto.kunz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/reto.kunz)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-on-perspective-table-columns-cells/77237/5 "2023-10-13T10:17:07Z")
Tooltips for individual rows / columns / cells would be a really cool feature, I also often encounter situations where the content is just too big to show in a table cell. Often a short version of it is enough for the user, but then when you need the full information it needs to be available... One possible workaround I found for showing tooltips in a table is using subviews: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/8/a8dc9cd27c4c85e39824810c162616dfbf0f27e4.png)