@vx/tooltip

@vx/tooltip

The @vx/tooltip package provides utilities for making it easy to add Tooltips to a visualization and includes hooks, higher-order component (HOC) enhancers and Tooltip components.

Installation

npm install --save @vx/tooltip

Hooks and Enhancers

This package provides two ways to add tooltip state logic to your chart components:

• a hook: useTooltip()
• a higher order component (HOC): withTooltip()

The useTooltip hook is the recommended way to add tooltip state logic to your components, but can only be used in functional components. The withTooltip HOC can be used with both functional and class components, and is the recommended way to add tooltip state logic to class components.

Both useTooltip and withTooltip expose the same values and functions for use in your component:

Name	Type	Description
showTooltip	func	Call this function with the signature func({ tooltipData, tooltipLeft, tooltipTop }) to set the tooltip state to the specified values.
hideTooltip	func	Call this function to close a tooltip, i.e., set the showTooltip state to false.
tooltipOpen	bool	Whether the tooltip state is open or closed
tooltipLeft	number	The tooltipLeft position passed to the showTooltip func, intended to be used for tooltip positioning
tooltipTop	number	The tooltipTop position passed to the showTooltip func, intended to be used for tooltip positioning
tooltipData	any	The tooltipData value passed to the showTooltip func, intended to be used for any data that your tooltip might need to render
updateTooltip	func	Call this function with the signature func({ tooltipOpen, tooltipLeft, tooltipTop, tooltipData }) to set the tooltip state to the specified values.

In the case of useTooltip, these will be returned from the useTooltip() call in your component. In the case of withTooltip, they will be passed as props to your wrapped component. Refer to the Examples section for a basic demo of each approach.

useTooltip()

If you would like to add tooltip state logic to a functional component, you may use the useTooltip() hook which will return an object with several properties that you can use to manage the tooltip state of your component. For correct tooltip positioning, it is important to wrap your component in an element (e.g., div) with relative positioning. This is handled for you by the withTooltip HOC, but not with the useTooltip() hook.

withTooltip(BaseComponent [, containerProps [, renderContainer]])

If you would like to add tooltip state logic to a class component, you may wrap it in withTooltip(BaseComponent [, containerProps [, renderContainer]).

The HOC will wrap your component in a div with relative positioning by default and handle state for tooltip positioning, visibility, and content by injecting the following props into your BaseComponent:

You may override the container by specifying containerProps as the second argument to withTooltip, or by specifying renderContainer as the third argument to withTooltip.

Components

Tooltip

This is a simple Tooltip container component meant to be used to actually render a Tooltip. It accepts the following props, and will spread any additional props on the tooltip container div (i.e., ...restProps):

Name	Type	Default	Description
left	number or string	--	Sets style.left of the tooltip container
top	number or string	--	Sets style.top of the tooltip container
className	string	--	Adds a class (in addition to vx-tooltip-portal) to the tooltip container
style	object	--	Sets / overrides any styles on the tooltip container (including top and left)
children	node	--	Sets the children of the tooltip, i.e., the actual content
unstyled	bool	true	Whether the tooltip should use styles from the style prop or not

TooltipWithBounds

This tooltip component is exactly the same as Tooltip above, but it is aware of its boundaries meaning that it will flip left/right and bottom/top based on whether it would overflow its parent's boundaries. It accepts the following props, and will spread any additional props on the Tooltip component (i.e., ...restProps):

Name	Type	Default	Description
left	number	--	The horizontal position of the cursor, tooltip will be place to the left or right of this coordinate depending on the width of the tooltip and the size of the parent container.
top	number	--	The vertical position of the cursor, tooltip will be place to the bottom or top of this coordinate depending on the height of the tooltip and the size of the parent container.
offsetLeft	number	10	Horizontal offset of the tooltip from the passed left value, functions as a horizontal padding.
offsetRight	number	10	Vertical offset of the tooltip from the passed top value, functions as a vertical padding.
style	object	--	Sets / overrides any styles on the tooltip container (including top and left)
children	node	--	Sets the children of the tooltip, i.e., the actual content
unstyled	bool	true	Whether the tooltip should use styles from the style prop or not

Note that this component is positioned using a transform, so overriding left and top via styles may have no effect.

Examples

useTooltip For Functional Components

import { useTooltip, TooltipWithBounds } from '@vx/tooltip';
import { localPoint } from '@vx/event';

const ChartWithTooltip = () => {
  const {
    tooltipData,
    tooltipLeft,
    tooltipTop,
    tooltipOpen,
    showTooltip,
    hideTooltip,
  } = useTooltip();

  const handleMouseOver = (event, datum) => {
    const coords = localPoint(event.target.ownerSVGElement, event);
    showTooltip({
      tooltipLeft: coords.x,
      tooltipTop: coords.y,
      tooltipData: datum
    });
  };

  return (
    <>
      <svg width={...} height={...}>
        // Chart here...
        <SomeChartElement
          onMouseOver={this.handleMouseOver}
          onMouseOut={hideTooltip}
        />
      </svg>

      {tooltipOpen && (
        <TooltipWithBounds
          // set this to random so it correctly updates with parent bounds
          key={Math.random()}
          top={tooltipTop}
          left={tooltipLeft}
        >
          Data value <strong>{tooltipData}</strong>
        </TooltipWithBounds>
      )}
    </>
  )
};

render(<ChartWithTooltip />, document.getElementById("root"));

withTooltip For Class Components

import { withTooltip, TooltipWithBounds } from '@vx/tooltip';
import { localPoint } from '@vx/event';

class Chart extends React.Component {
  handleMouseOver = (event, datum) => {
    const coords = localPoint(event.target.ownerSVGElement, event);
    this.props.showTooltip({
      tooltipLeft: coords.x,
      tooltipTop: coords.y,
      tooltipData: datum
    });
  };

  render() {
    const {
      tooltipData,
      tooltipLeft,
      tooltipTop,
      tooltipOpen,
      hideTooltip
    } = this.props;

    return (
      // note React.Fragment is only available in >= react@16.2
      <React.Fragment>
        <svg width={...} height={...}>
          // Chart here...
          <SomeChartElement onMouseOver={this.handleMouseOver} onMouseOut={hideTooltip} />
        </svg>

        {tooltipOpen && (
          <TooltipWithBounds
            // set this to random so it correctly updates with parent bounds
            key={Math.random()}
            top={tooltipTop}
            left={tooltipLeft}
          >
            Data value <strong>{tooltipData}</strong>
          </TooltipWithBounds>
        )}
      </React.Fragment>
    );
  }
}

const ChartWithTooltip = withTooltip(Chart);

render(<ChartWithTooltip />, document.getElementById("root"));

Example codesandbox here.