Tooltip The tooltip is a common graphical user interface element. It is used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over an item, without clicking it, and a tooltip may appear — a small "hover box" with information about the item being hovered over. The term tooltip originally came from older Microsoft applications (like Microsoft Word 95), which had a Toolbar where moving the mouse over the buttons (the Toolbar icons) displayed these Tooltips, a short description of the function of the tool in the Toolbar. More recently, these Tooltips are used everywhere, not only on Toolbars. OpenERP have done many improvements in the usability, tooltip is one of them, you will be getting surprise but there are many small changes have made for the tooltips. Lets see one by one. Tooltip on Label Do mouse hover when you see the "?" before any label, Form example below in the screen detailed description for the Sales Team field on ...