Sphinx extension to show tooltips with content embedded when hover a reference.
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Author: Manuel Kaufmann
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Development Status
- 5 - Production/Stable
Framework
- Sphinx
- Sphinx :: Extension
License
- OSI Approved :: MIT License
Operating System
- OS Independent
Programming Language
- Python :: 2.7
- Python :: 3
Topic
- Documentation :: Sphinx
- Software Development :: Documentation
sphinx-hoverxref
sphinx-hoverxref is a Sphinx extension to add tooltips on the cross references of the documentation with the content of the linked section.
Example

Installation
You can install sphinx-hoverxref from PyPI:
pip install sphinx-hoverxref
Or, alternatively, install it from GitHub directly (requires git):
pip install git+https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx-hoverxref
Configuration
Add this extension in your conf.py file as:
extensions = [
# ... other extensions here
'hoverxref.extension',
]
Documentation
Check out the full documentation at https://sphinx-hoverxref.readthedocs.io/
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