Popover (GUI)

{{Short description|User interface element}}

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A popover is a container-type graphical control element that hovers over its parent window. It can contain various other graphical control elements such as checkboxes, radio buttons, or list boxes. Like any container-type graphical control element, it is meant to group elements that belong together.

Popover graphical control elements were introduced in GTK+ 3.12.{{cite web |url=https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/01/22/and-now-popovers/ |title=Popovers in GTK+ |date=2014-01-22}}

Apple included popovers in their human interface guidelines.[https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/components/presentation/popovers/ Popovers], developer.apple.com Popovers are in use on the web. Bootstrap has a component to create popovers, similar to those found in iOS.[https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/components/popovers/ Popovers]

When hovering a link in Wikipedia, by default, there is a popup of page preview that is in a way popover: it includes a button and it has more content than in tooltip.