Help text not displaying in vf page when i use output panel

Question

I'm trying to display helptext of a custom field using below code but it is not displaying because of apex:outputpanel need hepl

    <page>
    <apex:form>
     <apex:pageblock>
       <apex:pageblocksection>
         <apex:outputpanel id="abcid">
            <apex:pageblocksectionitem helptext="{!$Objecttype.abcobj.fields.abcfeld.inlinehelptext}">
            </apex:pageblocksectionitem>
         <apex:outputpanel>
         </apex:pageblocksection>
    </apex:pageblock> 
  </apex:form>
</page>

i want output panel before apex:pageblocksectionitem any help

Answer 1

can you try the following code to display help text with outputpanel.

<apex:form >
     <apex:pageblock >
     <apex:outputpanel id="abcid">
       <apex:pageblocksection >           
            <apex:inputfield value="{!Account.Multiselect__c}"/>           
         </apex:pageblocksection>
         </apex:outputPanel>
    </apex:pageblock> 
  </apex:form>