data-tooltip from stupid.css gens exception when placed as an attribute into web2py html tag functions

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Aug 1, 2020, 1:02:28 AM8/1/20

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Hello there.

In my index.html i was trying to output this text

{{=A(SPAN('MyWord', _data-tooltip='Hey, this is the word of mine!'), _href='word')}}

and it failed miserably (generated an exception).

I was able to fix this by replacing "data-tooltip" with "data_tooltip" in stupid.css and then changing the above code to

{{=A(SPAN('MyWord', _data_tooltip='Hey, this is the word of mine!'), _href='word')}}

But we all want this stuff to work right out of the box, right?

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Aug 1, 2020, 4:57:13 AM8/1/20

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Hi,

it doesn't solve your problem. But why not using _title attribute for the standard tooltip functionality?
https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_attributes_title

Regards

Clemens

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Aug 3, 2020, 7:43:45 AM8/3/20

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This is a known 'quirk'.

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