---
title: "How to: Use ToolTips in ToolStrip Controls"
ms.date: "03/30/2017"
helpviewer_keywords: 
  - "ToolStrip control [Windows Forms], adding tooltips"
  - "toolbars [Windows Forms], adding tooltips"
  - "tooltips [Windows Forms], adding"
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---
# How to: Use ToolTips in ToolStrip Controls
You can display a <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip> for the <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip> control you want by setting the control's <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.ShowItemToolTips%2A> property to `true`.  
  
### To display a ToolTip  
  
- Set the <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.ShowItemToolTips%2A> property of the control to `true`.  
  
     The default value of <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.ShowItemToolTips%2A?displayProperty=nameWithType> is `true`, and the default value of <xref:System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip.ShowItemToolTips%2A?displayProperty=nameWithType> and <xref:System.Windows.Forms.StatusStrip.ShowItemToolTips%2A?displayProperty=nameWithType> is `false`.  
  
### To use the ToolTipText property for the ToolTip text of a ToolStripButton  
  
1. Set the <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.ShowItemToolTips%2A> property of the button to `true`.  
  
2. Set the <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripButton.AutoToolTip%2A?displayProperty=nameWithType> property of the button to `false`.  
  
     The `AutoToolTip` property is `true` by default for <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripButton>, <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDownButton>, and <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripSplitButton>.  
  
     A <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripButton> uses its `Text` property for the <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip> text by default. Use this procedure to display custom text in a <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripButton><xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip>.  
  
> [!NOTE]
> If you set <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItemDisplayStyle> to <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItemDisplayStyle.None> or <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItemDisplayStyle.Image>, no text will appear on the button, but the tool tip still appears.  
  
## See also

- <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.ShowItemToolTips%2A>
- <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripButton>
- <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDownButton>
- <xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripSplitButton>
- [ToolStrip Control Overview](toolstrip-control-overview-windows-forms.md)
