# Tooltips on Perspective table columns/cells?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-on-perspective-table-columns-cells/77237>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** scripting, perspective, vision, ignition81\
**Created:** [August 1, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-on-perspective-table-columns-cells/77237 "2023-08-01T16:43:55Z")\
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**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")

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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):
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> 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.

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