Tooltips are an alternative to the standard browser title tooltip.

Tooltip markup

A standard tooltip

<div class="tooltip fade top in">
    <div class="tooltip-arrow"></div>
    <div class="tooltip-inner">Create a new blog post based on this</div>
</div>

Spawning tooltips

Tooltips can be automatically created when the mouse enters an element using the data-toggle="tooltip" tag.

<a
    href="javascript:;"
    data-toggle="tooltip"
    data-placement="left"
    data-delay="500"
    title="Tooltip content">
    Some link
</a>

<div class="tooltip fade top in">
    <div class="tooltip-arrow"></div>
    <div class="tooltip-inner">Create a new blog post based on this</div>
</div>