I have a need to produce tooltip help on each option that appears in a popup_menu in CGI.pm. I know this is possible by adding a title attribute to each option, so the browser shows this when the mouse hovers over it. I can't figure out how to do it within popup_menu.

Here's a code snippet that works using Select (deprecated) instead of popup_menu:

print $q->start_Select({
  -id       => 'idprd_order_allowed',
  -name     => 'prd_order_allowed',
  -override => 1,
  -onChange => "changeInCore=true",
  -default  => $prd_order_allowed });
foreach my $option (@low_values_prd_order_allowed){
print $q->option({
  -value=>"$option",
  -title=>"$titles_prd_order_allowed{$option}"}, "$meanings_prd_order_
+allowed{$option}");
    }
print $q->end_Select();

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I want to replicate that -title=> behaviour in popup_menu() - currently have:

print $q->popup_menu(
-id       => 'idprd_order_allowed',
-name     => 'prd_order_allowed',
-override => 1,
-onChange => "changeInCore=true",
-default  => $prd_order_allowed,
-value    => [@low_values_prd_order_allowed],
-labels   => \%meanings_prd_order_allowed
);

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I'm sure (I hope!) there is a simple option similar to -labels that I am missing. Any suggestions?

In reply to Adding attributes to select list options in CGI.pm popup_menu? by backedge

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