rc-tooltip

What is rc-tooltip?

The rc-tooltip package is a React component for creating simple and customizable tooltips. It allows developers to easily add tooltip functionality to their React applications, providing users with additional context or information when they hover over or focus on an element. The package supports various customization options, including the tooltip's appearance, positioning, and animation.

What are rc-tooltip's main functionalities?

Basic Tooltip

This code sample demonstrates how to create a basic tooltip that appears on top of an element when it is hovered over. The tooltip's content is specified as 'Tooltip text'.

import React from 'react';
import Tooltip from 'rc-tooltip';
import 'rc-tooltip/assets/bootstrap.css';

const BasicTooltip = () => (
  <Tooltip placement="top" trigger={['hover']} overlay={<span>Tooltip text</span>}>
    <a href="#">Hover me</a>
  </Tooltip>
);

Customized Tooltip

This example shows how to create a tooltip that appears to the right of an element when clicked. The tooltip displays custom content, including a custom style and an arrow pointing to the target element.

import React from 'react';
import Tooltip from 'rc-tooltip';
import 'rc-tooltip/assets/bootstrap_white.css';

const CustomTooltip = () => (
  <Tooltip
    placement="right"
    trigger={['click']}
    overlay={<div style={{ height: 50, width: 100, backgroundColor: '#89CFF0' }}>Custom Content</div>}
    arrowContent={<div className="rc-tooltip-arrow-inner"></div>}
  >
    <a href="#">Click me</a>
  </Tooltip>
);

Dynamic Tooltip

This code snippet illustrates how to create a tooltip with dynamic visibility, controlled by the component's state. The tooltip appears when the mouse enters the target element and disappears when it leaves.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import Tooltip from 'rc-tooltip';

const DynamicTooltip = () => {
  const [visible, setVisible] = useState(false);
  return (
    <Tooltip
      visible={visible}
      onVisibleChange={(vis) => setVisible(vis)}
      overlay={<span>Dynamic Content</span>}
    >
      <a href="#" onMouseEnter={() => setVisible(true)} onMouseLeave={() => setVisible(false)}>Hover or Leave</a>
    </Tooltip>
  );
};

Other packages similar to rc-tooltip

react-tooltip

react-tooltip is another popular tooltip library for React applications. It offers a wide range of customization options similar to rc-tooltip, but with a different API and additional features such as global tooltip management and more extensive styling capabilities.

tippy.js

tippy.js is a highly customizable tooltip and popover library that can be used with React through a wrapper component. It provides more extensive animation and theming options compared to rc-tooltip, making it suitable for more complex tooltip requirements.

README

rc-tooltip

React Tooltip

Screenshot

Browsers support

IE / Edge	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	Opera
IE 8 + ✔	Firefox 31.0+ ✔	Chrome 31.0+ ✔	Safari 7.0+ ✔	Opera 30.0+ ✔

Install

Usage

var Tooltip = require('rc-tooltip');
var React = require('react');
var ReactDOM = require('react-dom');

// By default, the tooltip has no style.
// Consider importing the stylesheet it comes with:
// 'rc-tooltip/assets/bootstrap_white.css'

ReactDOM.render(
  <Tooltip placement="left" trigger={['click']} overlay={<span>tooltip</span>}>
    <a href="#">hover</a>
  </Tooltip>,
  container,
);

Examples

npm start and then go to http://localhost:8000/demo

Online demo: https://react-component.github.io/tooltip/demo

API

Props

name	type	default	description
trigger	string | string[]	'hover'	which actions cause tooltip shown. enum of 'hover','click','focus'
visible	boolean	false	whether tooltip is visible
defaultVisible	boolean	false	whether tooltip is visible by default
placement	string	'right'	tooltip placement. enum of 'top','left','right','bottom', 'topLeft', 'topRight', 'bottomLeft', 'bottomRight', 'leftTop', 'leftBottom', 'rightTop', 'rightBottom'
motion	object		Config popup motion. Please ref demo for example
onVisibleChange	(visible: boolean) => void;		Callback when visible change
afterVisibleChange	(visible: boolean) => void;		Callback after visible change
overlay	ReactNode | () => ReactNode		tooltip overlay content
overlayStyle	object		style of tooltip overlay
overlayClassName	string		className of tooltip overlay
prefixCls	string	'rc-tooltip'	prefix class name of tooltip
mouseEnterDelay	number	0	delay time (in second) before tooltip shows when mouse enter
mouseLeaveDelay	number	0.1	delay time (in second) before tooltip hides when mouse leave
getTooltipContainer	(triggerNode: HTMLElement) => HTMLElement	() => document.body	get container of tooltip, default to body
destroyTooltipOnHide	boolean	false	destroy tooltip when it is hidden
align	object		align config of tooltip. Please ref demo for usage example
showArrow	boolean | object	false	whether to show arrow of tooltip
zIndex	number		config popup tooltip zIndex

Important Note

Tooltip requires a child node that accepts an onMouseEnter, onMouseLeave, onFocus, onClick event. This means the child node must be a built-in component like div or span, or a custom component that passes its props to its built-in component child.

Accessibility

For accessibility purpose you can use the id prop to link your tooltip with another element. For example attaching it to an input element:

<Tooltip
    ...
    id={this.props.name}>
    <input type="text"
           ...
           aria-describedby={this.props.name}/>
</Tooltip>

If you do it like this, a screenreader would read the content of your tooltip if you focus the input element.

NOTE: role="tooltip" is also added to expose the purpose of the tooltip element to a screenreader.

Development

npm install
npm start

Test Case

npm test
npm run chrome-test

Coverage

npm run coverage

License

rc-tooltip is released under the MIT license.