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layout: docs
title: Tooltips
description: Tooltips are text labels that appear when the user focuses on, hovers over, or touches an element.
group: material
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Tooltips identify an element when they are activated. They may contain brief helper text about its function. For example, they may contain text information about actionable icons.

**Most of the details about Material tooltips have been covered in Components/Tooltips documentation. Please refer to [this page]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/{{ site.docs_version }}/components/tooltips/) for more details.**