diff --git a/app/views/profiles/personal_access_tokens/index.html.haml b/app/views/profiles/personal_access_tokens/index.html.haml
index bb4effeeeb14280b9114be5928726c4799cdddf8..60a561c9f9c1483d48414087780d01d80b9626e3 100644
--- a/app/views/profiles/personal_access_tokens/index.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/profiles/personal_access_tokens/index.html.haml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
           Your New Personal Access Token
         .form-group
           = text_field_tag 'created-personal-access-token', flash[:personal_access_token], readonly: true, class: "form-control", 'aria-describedby' => "created-personal-access-token-help-block"
-          = clipboard_button(clipboard_text: flash[:personal_access_token])
+          = clipboard_button(clipboard_text: flash[:personal_access_token], title: "Copy personal access token to clipboard", placement: "left")
           %span#created-personal-access-token-help-block.help-block.text-danger Make sure you save it - you won't be able to access it again.
 
       %hr
diff --git a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/show/_how_to_merge.html.haml b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/show/_how_to_merge.html.haml
index ec76c6a5417bb5dde51ace35760225d913fe07c9..93ed4b68e0e83a8b73e705a8db65cd588e5fc07e 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/show/_how_to_merge.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/show/_how_to_merge.html.haml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
         %p
           %strong Step 1.
           Fetch and check out the branch for this merge request
-        = clipboard_button(clipboard_target: "pre#merge-info-1")
+        = clipboard_button(clipboard_target: "pre#merge-info-1", title: "Copy commands to clipboard")
         %pre.dark#merge-info-1
           - if @merge_request.for_fork?
             :preserve
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
         %p
           %strong Step 3.
           Merge the branch and fix any conflicts that come up
-        = clipboard_button(clipboard_target: "pre#merge-info-3")
+        = clipboard_button(clipboard_target: "pre#merge-info-3", title: "Copy commands to clipboard")
         %pre.dark#merge-info-3
           - if @merge_request.for_fork?
             :preserve
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
         %p
           %strong Step 4.
           Push the result of the merge to GitLab
-        = clipboard_button(clipboard_target: "pre#merge-info-4")
+        = clipboard_button(clipboard_target: "pre#merge-info-4", title: "Copy commands to clipboard")
         %pre.dark#merge-info-4
           :preserve
             git push origin #{h @merge_request.target_branch}
diff --git a/app/views/shared/_clone_panel.html.haml b/app/views/shared/_clone_panel.html.haml
index 96b7544030974d4aec105344fc0f125b29e06b66..03684389742927d404203230d540acd99a57656e 100644
--- a/app/views/shared/_clone_panel.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/shared/_clone_panel.html.haml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
   = text_field_tag :project_clone, default_url_to_repo(project), class: "js-select-on-focus form-control", readonly: true
   .input-group-btn
-    = clipboard_button(clipboard_target: '#project_clone')
+    = clipboard_button(clipboard_target: '#project_clone', title: "Copy URL to clipboard")
 
 :javascript
   $('ul.clone-options-dropdown a').on('click',function(e){
diff --git a/app/views/shared/issuable/_sidebar.html.haml b/app/views/shared/issuable/_sidebar.html.haml
index 5f199301364ac5068f07f1607423a51a09166477..a02b815e3cd31932b33f4a04f8263530dd6cbc53 100644
--- a/app/views/shared/issuable/_sidebar.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/shared/issuable/_sidebar.html.haml
@@ -153,13 +153,13 @@
       - project_ref = cross_project_reference(@project, issuable)
       .block.project-reference
         .sidebar-collapsed-icon.dont-change-state
-          = clipboard_button(clipboard_text: project_ref)
+          = clipboard_button(clipboard_text: project_ref, title: "Copy reference to clipboard", placement: "left")
         .cross-project-reference.hide-collapsed
           %span
             Reference:
             %cite{ title: project_ref }
               = project_ref
-          = clipboard_button(clipboard_text: project_ref)
+          = clipboard_button(clipboard_text: project_ref, title: "Copy reference to clipboard", placement: "left")
 
     :javascript
       new MilestoneSelect('{"namespace":"#{@project.namespace.path}","path":"#{@project.path}"}');
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/clipboard-button-text.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/clipboard-button-text.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dc93da6042679ba46ef0c5d27bdc697c8ef98a5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/clipboard-button-text.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+title: 'Copy <some text> to clipboard'
+merge_request: 8535