Thread:Project:Support desk/Modify Default Tooltip Behavior/reply

The tooltip is displayed, generated and located by the browser. MediaWiki only defines a "title" attribute with that text that aims to be a description of the field. But there's no way to control it's position or when should or shouldn't be displayed.

I would call this a browser issue, since at least Firefox hides the tooltip when I start typing.

There's really no much you can do about this, but if you know about JavaScript, you can create a custom script to remove the title attribute of the search field on key press. That would solve the issue.