Add tooltips built entirely in CSS to nearly any element. Just add a few classes and an aria-label attribute.

This repository is a module of the full primer-css repository.

This repository is distributed with npm. After installing npm, you can install primer-tooltips with this command.

$ npm install --save primer-tooltips

The source files included are written in Sass (scss) You can simply point your sass include-path at your node_modules directory and import it like this.

@import "primer-tooltips/index.scss";

You can also import specific portions of the module by importing those partials from the /lib/ folder. Make sure you import any requirements along with the modules.

For a compiled css version of this module, a npm script is included that will output a css version to build/build.css The built css file is also included in the npm package.

$ npm run build

You can read more about other primer modules in the full primer docs.

Add tooltips built entirely in CSS to nearly any element. Just add a few classes and an aria-label attribute.

In addition, you'll want to specify a direction:

• .tooltipped-n
• .tooltipped-ne
• .tooltipped-e
• .tooltipped-se
• .tooltipped-s
• .tooltipped-sw
• .tooltipped-w
• .tooltipped-nw

Tooltip classes will conflict with Octicon classes, and as such, must go on a parent element instead of the icon.

<span class="tooltipped tooltipped-n border p-2 mb-2 mr-2 float-left" aria-label="This is the tooltip.">
  Tooltip North
</span>
<span class="tooltipped tooltipped-ne border p-2 mb-2 mr-2 float-left" aria-label="This is the tooltip.">
  Tooltip North East
</span>
<span class="tooltipped tooltipped-e border p-2 mb-2 mr-2 float-left" aria-label="This is the tooltip.">
  Tooltip East
</span>
<span class="tooltipped tooltipped-se border p-2 mb-2 mr-2 float-left" aria-label="This is the tooltip.">
  Tooltip South East
</span>
<span class="tooltipped tooltipped-s border p-2 mb-2 mr-2 float-left" aria-label="This is the tooltip.">
  Tooltip South
</span>
<span class="tooltipped tooltipped-sw border p-2 mb-2 mr-2 float-left" aria-label="This is the tooltip.">
  Tooltip South West
</span>
<span class="tooltipped tooltipped-w border p-2 mb-2 mr-2 float-left" aria-label="This is the tooltip.">
  Tooltip West
</span>
<span class="tooltipped tooltipped-nw border p-2 mb-2 mr-2 float-left" aria-label="This is the tooltip.">
  Tooltip North West
</span>

By default the tooltips have a slight delay before appearing. This is to keep multiple tooltips in the UI from being distracting. There is a modifier class you can use to override this. .tooltipped-no-delay

<span class="tooltipped tooltipped-n tooltipped-no-delay border p-2" aria-label="This is the tooltip.">
  Tooltip no delay
</span>

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