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# In-app guidance
Guides, validators, tooltips, Contextual Actions, and the selectors underneath them.
In-app guidance is help that appears inside the application someone is already working in. Userlane draws it on top of the existing screen, and the underlying application is not changed.
Each page below covers one type. Guides walk a user through a process step by step. Validators check an entry before it is saved. Tooltips and beacons attach a short explanation or a marker to a single element on screen. Contextual Actions show content automatically when a condition is met. Selectors[^1] are the mechanism underneath all of them, and the reason a piece of content sometimes stops finding its element after the application changes.
{% content-ref url="/pages/1S0Ysrf45iMPMs4rp5yk" %}
[Creating guides](/assistance/in-app-guidance/creating-guides.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}
{% content-ref url="/pages/KhbHHZ0ThLa5Pkd5bNXI" %}
[Creating tooltips](/assistance/in-app-guidance/creating-tooltips.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}
{% content-ref url="/pages/L1pTwQHW0TmAMoPDFhLR" %}
[Creating Contextual Actions](/assistance/in-app-guidance/creating-contextual-actions.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}
## Relevant articles
* [A tour of the Editor](/assistance/a-tour-of-the-editor.md)
* [Targeting](/assistance/content-operations/targeting.md)
* [Tasks](/intelligence/tasks.md)
* [Guides: build, maintain, and make them effective](/best-practices/guides-build-maintain-and-make-them-effective.md)
[^1]: A selector is the rule Userlane uses to find an element on the page. If the application changes, the selector may need refining so it still matches.
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