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Warning

This extension has been deprecated. Users are advised to enable the "Link previews" option in "Settings" > "Addons" > "Link previews" in the Read the Docs admin dashboard for their project to get the same functionality as this extension.

For more information, please see:

  1. https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/link-previews.html
  2. https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/addons-by-default/

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sphinx-hoverxref

sphinx-hoverxref is a Sphinx extension to add tooltips on the cross references of the documentation with the content of the linked section.

Example

docs/sphinx-hoverxref-example.png

Installation

You can install sphinx-hoverxref from PyPI:

pip install sphinx-hoverxref

Or, alternatively, install it from GitHub directly (requires git):

pip install git+https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx-hoverxref

Configuration

Add this extension in your conf.py file as:

extensions = [
 # ... other extensions here

 'hoverxref.extension',
]

Documentation

Check out the full documentation at https://sphinx-hoverxref.readthedocs.io/

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