# Hovering over a tag field should display whole data from this tag
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hovering-over-a-tag-field-should-display-whole-data-from-this-tag/56788
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 24, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hovering-over-a-tag-field-should-display-whole-data-from-this-tag/56788 "2022-03-24T16:17:03Z")
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hovering-over-a-tag-field-should-display-whole-data-from-this-tag/56788/1 "2022-03-24T16:17:03Z")
I often find myself having to grab the vertically placed Tag Panel by its right edge and extend it, so that I can see the truncated long content of a given tag field. I also constantly have to expand the size of a column because of the same reason - and very often I need to revert right back to its [more or less] previous width. And all of this is done by hand, which is of course tedious and annoying
I already have proposed some solution [e.g. [REQUEST: Change Tag Panel size with a simple double click](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-change-tag-panel-size-with-a-simple-double-click/54113), [Request: customize column profiles](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-customize-column-profiles/17941)] but now I have a new idea that wold both alleviate those issues and improve the overall user-friendliness of Mp3tag
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And so: if the user could just hover with a pointer over a tag field, be it in the Tag Panel or in a Column, and almost immediately see its content displayed in form of a pop-up, then there would be no need to manipulate the widths to read the whole data from any tag
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In my opinion such feature should:
- be optional
- be turned on by default
- give the user ability to configure the delay in milliseconds
- maybe give the user ability to configure the colors used
- display single tag for a tag field in Tag Panel
- display multiple tags for a tag field / file in main window [after being configured by user]
This last suggestions comes out from my experience with filemanager FreeCommander. In it hovering on multimedia file will show info like `ARTIST` and `_LENGTH` - but I do not know if this can be configured, as I do not relay on this feature. But I do now that at the bottom of FreeCommander the user can adjust the displayed info - which allowed me to please me both in terms of information that is presented to me and the visual form of it [although this info there has nothing to do with tag fields data]
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hovering-over-a-tag-field-should-display-whole-data-from-this-tag/56788/2 "2022-03-24T16:30:46Z")
see also this more or less diametrally opposite suggestion:
> [@Pop-up descriptions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/pop-up-descriptions/56124):
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> One of the things that annoys me the most in the world are pesky pop-up descriptions. I absolutely hate them, don't find them useful and never use them. Whenever I can I disable them. Maybe I have sursumfenestraphobia, the fear of pop-up windows. Are we able to disable this feature currently or is it something that might be available in the future? Sorry if my wording sounded blunt, it's really not a critique, just a suggestion.
PS: I usually do not make comments on the spelling in posts. I am no native speaker of English and make my fair number of mistakes and therefore depend on the tolerance of the readers.
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But this time, I think that
> [@Zerow](#):
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> hoover
is not right as it means to use a vacuum cleaner.
I doubt that hoovering a tag field would be beneficial regardless whether it shows the whole data or not.
I think that the better term would be "hovering" as in "hovercraft" or "hoverfly".
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hovering-over-a-tag-field-should-display-whole-data-from-this-tag/56788/3 "2022-03-24T18:36:32Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> see also this more or less diametrally opposite suggestion:
> [Pop-up descriptions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/pop-up-descriptions/56124)
Having foreseen such opposite views, I gladly added the
> [@Zerow](#):
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> be optional
caveat
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> PS: I usually do not make comments on the spelling in posts. I am no native speaker of English and make my fair number of mistakes and therefore depend on the tolerance of the readers.
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> But this time, I think that
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> > [@Zerow](#):
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> > hoover
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> is not right as it means to use a vacuum cleaner.
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This is all fault of that goddamn Hoover Damn world wonder from the first Civilization game
As being a kid I first learned in English [through fun] to build the "hoover" and not to just "hover" [later on in class] thus I will mix these two probably until I die
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[I just corrected my original spelling]
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### Author:  [@astrohip](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/astrohip)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hovering-over-a-tag-field-should-display-whole-data-from-this-tag/56788/4 "2022-03-25T14:00:50Z")
I'm confused. When I hover over a field that is truncated, I get a popup that shows the full field info.
Isn't that what the OP is asking for?
Again, I clearly am confused. Educate me!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hovering-over-a-tag-field-should-display-whole-data-from-this-tag/56788/5 "2022-03-25T14:05:00Z")
I think there is a length limit.
Either it is 80 or 256 characters, you know, one of these computer numbers.
Also, if a field has line breaks then only the text up to the first line break is displayed.
Apparently, the OP wants to see more.
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### Author:  [@astrohip](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/astrohip)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hovering-over-a-tag-field-should-display-whole-data-from-this-tag/56788/6 "2022-03-25T14:24:25Z")
Thank you for the quick response. I knew I was missing something.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hovering-over-a-tag-field-should-display-whole-data-from-this-tag/56788/7 "2022-03-25T14:42:39Z")
My mistake
I remember seeing the popups sometimes and sometimes not. I assumed that it was somehow a part of Windows behavior that partially is present in Mp3tag. I got confused and did not explore this enough
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However some of the sub-featured that I listed are still valid. And on top of that I noticed two things:
- while running the Dark Mode, the pop-ups in main window are dark - but in Tag Panel they have white background
- in the Tag Panel a very long data exceeding the width of a pop-up is moved to the next line [creating multiline] - but in the main window the pop-up just go off screen thus for the user the data in it is still truncated
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And in regard to that last issue, if this whole feature was to become configurable, then the user should be:
- allow to set the max width of the pop-up [because a very long data on a widescreen monitor might be more pleasing to read more in a form of a square than a veeeery long / thin ractangle