What is popover=hint?
July 17, 2025
If you’ve been following along with advancements in HTML, such as the new popover API, you may have noticed that a new popover type (hint) recently landed in Chrome 133 (January 2025). But what exactly does it do?
The short answer is: popover=”hint” allows you to open an unrelated hint popover without closing other popovers in the stack. This means you can have an existing stack of auto popovers remain open while still displaying a hint popover.
Source: una.im | What is popover=hint?
It’s still not quite ready for primetime, but popover=”hint” is a coming addition to the popover API, for building ever more sophisticated Web UIs declaratively.
