What do you call the little triangular shape hanging off a tooltip or speech bubble?

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Some people use notch. But that doesn’t make sense because a notch is indented.

AI6YR Ben

@markwyner dooohickey

Jonathan Schofield

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

@ai6yr I’m pretty sure that’s in the W3C spec, yes?

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Promising.

Nuwagaba Gift

@markwyner
It's an arrow, am I right?

saucerlost

@markwyner
Never really thought about it but "indicator" comes to mind

AccordionBruce

@markwyner @ai6yr
Wikipedia seems to be calling the pointer originally used in speech balloons in #comics a Tail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_balloon#Popular_forms

olena