Fills the tooltip with information about an item, quest, spell, or other entity represented by a hyperlink.

If the hyperlink is a spell link, then as of WoW 6.2, the resulting tooltip will not contain the cost of the spell. GameTooltip:SetSpellByID() will contain the spell cost, however.

Signature:

GameTooltip:SetHyperlink("hyperlink")

Arguments:

  • hyperlink - A full hyperlink, or the linktype:linkdata portion thereof (string, hyperlink)