Show tooltips on tabs of Region Display Selector

mandreato Public · Jul 4 2025

Idea Summary
Region Display Selector should have a way to show tooltips when user hovers the mouse over the tabs.

Regions connected to the Display Selector should have an attribute where to specify their specific tooltip to show.

Use Case
When many tabs are clubbed on a Region Display Selector, they must have short text, while their description could be longer.

This is a great idea! You can already achieve this in APEX today with a slightly different approach.

Comments

fac586 OP 5 months ago
This is already possible by setting region Title properties to be HTML elements with title attributes:
```
<span title="Any project-related invoice not yet interfaced to Oracle Projects (Invoice not matched to PO)">Section 10</span>
```
However, information included in title attributes is not fully accessible. In cases like this where the region names are opaque and the user is reliant on the secondary information to understand the region content, then a form of navigation that makes this permanently visible and accessible to all is a better option. For example, a Media List located in a left or right sidebar can show a region title and explanatory subtitle, plus a badge indicating whether it contains data or other status information.

Navigation schemes like this can easily be automatically generated from metadata in the APEX_APPLICATION_PAGE_REGIONS view.
mandreato OP 5 months ago

@fac586 thanks for your suggestion - I'm embarrassed by how simple your solution is (for those who know HTML :-D).

I'd prefer the “span” solution because a fixed Media List would take up too much space: each sections is an Interactive Report with several columns and you know users don't like scrolling… I could make it collapsible but then it's a click away and again users complain :-(.