# Facet Grid hovertext parameter

**URL:** https://community.plotly.com/t/facet-grid-hovertext-parameter/5236
**Category:** 📊 Plotly Python
**Created:** [August 4, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/facet-grid-hovertext-parameter/5236 "2017-08-04T16:39:23Z")
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### Author: ![schivlg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@schivlg](https://community.plotly.com/u/schivlg)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/facet-grid-hovertext-parameter/5236/1 "2017-08-04T16:39:23Z")

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I’d like to specify a column of strings in my dataframe to use as the hovertext. It doesn’t seem like this is an option - is there anything I’m missing?

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### Author: ![FelixDM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@FelixDM](https://community.plotly.com/u/FelixDM)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/facet-grid-hovertext-parameter/5236/2 "2018-07-18T12:35:35Z")

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Can you be more specific? What kind of tracer are you using?

Suggestion: You could pass the column to the text variable and add the ‘text’ tag to hoverinfo.  
see [https://plot.ly/python/hover-text-and-formatting/](https://plot.ly/python/hover-text-and-formatting/)

Tip: for multiline tooltips add a ‘  
’ for each line break, e.g. text = 'Value1: ’ + df[‘Value1’] + ‘  
’ + 'Value2: ’ + df[‘Value2’]