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

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  • Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:M This user is from outside of this forum
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    What do you call the little triangular shape hanging off a tooltip or speech bubble?

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

    #UI #FrontEnd #InformationArchitecture #Design #Code #Taxonomy

    AI6YR BenA Jonathan SchofieldU Nuwagaba GiftN saucerlostS olenaO 5 Replies Last reply
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    • Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:M Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

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

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

      #UI #FrontEnd #InformationArchitecture #Design #Code #Taxonomy

      AI6YR BenA This user is from outside of this forum
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      @markwyner dooohickey

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      • Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:M Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

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

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

        #UI #FrontEnd #InformationArchitecture #Design #Code #Taxonomy

        Jonathan SchofieldU This user is from outside of this forum
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        @markwyner pointer

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        • AI6YR BenA AI6YR Ben

          @markwyner dooohickey

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

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            @markhburton

            .Tooltip .NoIdea {}

            Promising. 😂

            @urlyman

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            • Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:M Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

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

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

              #UI #FrontEnd #InformationArchitecture #Design #Code #Taxonomy

              Nuwagaba GiftN This user is from outside of this forum
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              @markwyner
              It's an arrow, am I right?

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              • Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:M Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

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

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

                #UI #FrontEnd #InformationArchitecture #Design #Code #Taxonomy

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

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                • Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:M Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

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

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                  @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

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                  • Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:M Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

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

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

                    #UI #FrontEnd #InformationArchitecture #Design #Code #Taxonomy

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                    @markwyner beak 🙂

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