Title: Does not work on hover
Last modified: May 6, 2024

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# Does not work on hover

 *  [Mark Blackham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olivewood/)
 * (@olivewood)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-on-hover/)
 * Does not work on hover. Is it supposed to?
 * When I click on link, a big box opens at end of page instead of a small one in
   context.

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 *  Plugin Author [Wikimedia Foundation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wikimediafoundation/)
 * (@wikimediafoundation)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-on-hover/#post-17738943)
 * Hi [@olivewood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olivewood/), thank you for
   taking the time to report this issue. Is there a public page where we can check
   what is going on? Is the [demo site](https://wikimedia.github.io/wikipedia-preview/main/)
   working for you are is it equally broken? Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [Mark Blackham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olivewood/)
 * (@olivewood)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-on-hover/#post-17741822)
 * Thanks for your response. No public page as yet. However, I tried your demo page
   using three different browsers and the popups did not work (all enabled for popups).
   I also have tooltip and footnote plugins on this staging site and their popups
   work fine.
 *  Plugin Author [Wikimedia Foundation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wikimediafoundation/)
 * (@wikimediafoundation)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-on-hover/#post-17741981)
 * Are you using a desktop computer (or laptop) with a touch screen?
 *  Thread Starter [Mark Blackham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olivewood/)
 * (@olivewood)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-on-hover/#post-17748523)
 * I’m using a desktop with touchscreen and another screen added – not touchscreen.
   It’s running Windows 10. I’ve tried Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, all with the same
   result (no Wiki popups). It works fine with touch or click, just not on hover.
   I get the impression the app is intended for phones only even though it is advertised
   with hover capabilities. On the PC, the original popup was large, covering the
   whole of the bottom screen and anchored at bottom-left. But I managed to size
   it and center it using CSS. All looks good except for the hover issue.
 *  Plugin Author [Wikimedia Foundation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wikimediafoundation/)
 * (@wikimediafoundation)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-on-hover/#post-17757157)
 * Hi [@olivewood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olivewood/),
 * It is our understanding that the popup works as expected on touch devices (phones,
   tablets) and non-touch desktop computers but struggles with devices with both
   touch and pointer capabilities. In your case it functions always in touch mode,
   meaning it shows on tap and looks like a bottom drawer.
 * We’ve known this issue for a long time (see task [T257574](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257574))
   but had never received any user feedback about it. We’ll consider fixing it for
   the next release.
 * Thanks again for your feedback

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 * Last activity: [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-on-hover/#post-17757157)
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