Get rid of "Permalink to: XXX…" tooltip

[hello]

How do I prevent a tool tip from appearing on hover for post links?

Thanks.

[jade]

Hi Daniel,

The easy way to get rid of that text is to write a Javascript code to get rid of the text in the title attribute of the post links that display the text when the links are hovered.

Please add this code in X > Theme Options > JS:

jQuery('a.entry-thumb, .x-recent-posts a').attr('title', '');

Hope this helps.

[hello]

Thanks for the response, it led me to searching other jQuery solutions.

For some reason, your line didn’t do anything, so I tried this:

jQuery(function($){$(document).ready(function(){$('a').attr('title','');});});

and it worked. Thanks, again, for the quick response and the idea.

[nabeel]

Hi Daniel,

Your solution seems correct but this would remove the title from every anchor tag, you should try this code instead to apply it on the posts only:

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
	$('.entry-thumb').attr('title', '');
});

Don’t forget to clear all caches including your browser’s cache after adding the code. Let us know how this goes!

[hello]

Thanks for the reply. I tried

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
	$('.entry-thumb').attr('title', '');
});

But the permalinks tooltips reappear. When you say that

jQuery(function($){$(document).ready(function(){$('a').attr('title','');});});

would delete titles from all anchor tags, do you mean that it will remove all tooltips? Or when you say titles, do you mean something else. Obviously; I don’t won’t to hurt my SEO, but the tooltips seem to reappear with the other solutions.

[nabeel]

Hi Daniel,

Your code will remove all the title attributes from all anchor tags which also means that all tool-tips will be removed globally. For example if you have the following code on a page:

<a href="#" title="the title"></a>

With your script the above code will become:

<a href="#" title=""></a>

I tested both the script provided above and they works correctly on the posts links. Can you please share the URL of the page in question so we can take a look?

Thanks!