Sphinx documentation and hover text

Question

Is it possible, using sphinx, to have hover-boxes for words that appear inside code snippets, similar to what the hover-boxes in the code samples in the angular.js landing page look and behave like?

Answer 1

(For those who landed here while looking for hover tooltips in regular RsT text)

The :abbr: inline markup produces tooltips in HTML, like that:

:abbr:`linkified text (tooltip text)`

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An alternative, fully functional solution is the sphinx-hoverxref extension, which retrofits a :ref:-like role that fetches tooltip content from the referenced section, figure, etc: