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Concept cluster
Compare passive hints, interactive supporting content, and compact action menus around one trigger.
Do you need a short explanation, interactive contextual content, or an action list?
Try it
Compare all three behaviors
Shared comparison scenario: A project workspace must reveal brief help, supporting details, or a short action list from a compact control without leaving the current task.
This context stays fixed. Switch concepts to observe the mission, edge case, and specimen specific to each behavior.
Tooltip
Choose Tooltip only when the content is brief and contains no interactive element; use Popover for controls or richer content.
Your task
Reveal the icon's name with pointer and keyboard, then dismiss it with Escape.
Edge case to verify
On touch, the icon still has a visible accessible label path and no information depends only on hover.
Mission
Reveal the icon's name with pointer and keyboard, then dismiss it with Escape.
Export report
report-july.pdf
Select a numbered marker on the schematic, or use the list below, to see its role. The schematic shows the concept's representative state.
Trigger
The control that opens or reveals the surface.
These descriptions fit every concept in the cluster, so none of them is enough to decide.