Popover (GUI)

A popover is a container-type graphical control element that hovers over its parent window.

It can contain various other graphical control elements such as checkboxes, radio buttons, or list boxes.

[1] Apple included popovers in their human interface guidelines.

Bootstrap has a component to create popovers, similar to those found in iOS.

[3] When hovering a link in Wikipedia, by default, there is a popup of page preview that is in a way popover: it includes a button and it has more content than in tooltip.

This popover belongs to the status bar of gedit . It contains two checkboxes and a radio button .