Attribute list

[NFanoe]

Why does this work:
:material-information-outline:{ title="Important information" }
-but this does not:
<span>abbreviation</span>{ title="Important information" } and
abbreviation{ title="Important information" }
?

[kamilkrzyskow]

Hello @NFanoe,
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do, but since you use the title attribute, then I'll assume you want to enable tooltips for elements.

attr_list is a Markdown extension, which adds attributes to HTML blocks generated in Markdown.

1. :material-information-outline:{ title="Important information" } works because the pymdownx.emoji markdown extension generates a HTML <span> wrapper for the icon, which later is used by the attr_list

2. <span>abbreviation</span>{ title="Important information" } doesn't work, because it's a raw HTML element not passed to the attr_list extension or any other extension, it's used as-is. You can fix it by adding your own attributes to the <span> element, and leave out the attr_list

<span title="Important information">

3. abbreviation{ title="Important information" } doesn't create any HTML element for attr_list to use. abbreviation is a pure string without a wrapper to target the addition of attributes. You can fix it using a span wrapper of your own above with set attributes without using attr_list, or any other wrapper *abbreviation*{ title="Important information" }

[NFanoe]

Ok, thanks for the explanation.

[kamilkrzyskow]

For the 3rd point I forgot to mention that you can add another wrapper to the abbreviation, like *abbreviation* which would work in unison with attr_list

[frammenti]

I know this is an old question but for anyone interested I developed a Python-Markdown extension markdown-span-attr to support arbitrary spans with attribute lists. So in your case you could write [abbreviation]{ title="Important information" } and it would output <span title="Important information">abbreviation</span>.

To use it you just need to pip install markdown-span-attr and add it in your mkdocs.yml file:

markdown_extensions:
  - attr_list
  - span_attr

[kamilkrzyskow]

2 months is rather fast in FOSS business 😎
Nice work 👍