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title: "How To: Creating Tool Tip Areas in a PDF"
description: Creating Tool Tip Areas in a PDF
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# [How To: Creating Tool Tip Areas in a PDF](https://www.antennahouse.com/news/2016/03/creating-tool-tip-areas-in-a-pdf)

 Written by [Antenna House](https://www.antennahouse.com/news/author/antenna-house) | March 1, 2016

The easiest way to achieve this is with an invisible and inactive button.  
`<axf:form-field field-type="button" field-name="tooltip1" field-description="Paragraph 1. This is the location for the tool tip text. Test." width="160mm" height="20mm" background-color="#ffffff" field-button-face-down="​" >`

Just omit the submit action and add the tool tip text to the field-description. You can then place this using an absolutely positioned block container with z-index set to -1 to make sure the graphic or text this corresponds to is drawn over the inactive button.

See button-[tooltip.fo](https://www.antennahouse.com/antenna1/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/button-tooltip.zip) and [button-tooltip.pdf](https://www.antennahouse.com/antenna1/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/button-tooltip-1.pdf) files for a complete example.

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