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When i hover over the button on my sites menu bar a little box appears, for exmaple when i hover over Home a little box comes up saying "Home".

Is there any pure HTML/CSS way to hide this? I notice that normal sites such as stackoverflow have this turned off.

Thanks

<a href="javascript:;" title="Home" aria-haspopup="true"><span>Home</span></a>
Pete
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Remove the title attribute, change:

<a href="javascript:;" title="Home" aria-haspopup="true"><span>Home</span></a>

to 

<a href="javascript:;" aria-haspopup="true"><span>Home</span></a>
Pete
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    great thanks, will mark this as the answer in a few minutes when it lets me – joseph.allen Aug 20 '15 at 11:28
  • in terms of SEO aren't these title attributes very important? is it possible to just prevent it showing up, but retain it? if not then this is perfect – joseph.allen Aug 20 '15 at 11:30
  • Not really, the title attributes are more for accessibility than seo and then I would only use them in the case where the text in the link doesn't really explain what it is doing so you need the title to explain it instead. – Pete Aug 20 '15 at 11:34
  • is the Title of the page not what comes up as the main text in a google search though? what happens if there is no title attribtue, does it just take the text of the link – joseph.allen Aug 20 '15 at 11:35
  • this is the `title` **attribute**: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H33.html. The thing you are talking about is the `title` **tag** in the head of the document - http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/TITLE.html – Pete Aug 20 '15 at 11:37
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You will need to remove the title attribute as it creates a popup displaying the value given to title. You will have to remove the title attribute from where you don't want it.

<a href="javascript:;" aria-haspopup="true"><span>Home</span></a>

You can learn more about the title attribute from http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_title.asp

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