react-popper-tooltip

What is react-popper-tooltip?

The react-popper-tooltip package is a React wrapper for Popper.js, which is a library used to position tooltips and popovers in web applications. It provides a simple and flexible way to create tooltips that are dynamically positioned based on the user's viewport and other elements on the page.

What are react-popper-tooltip's main functionalities?

Basic Tooltip

This code demonstrates how to create a basic tooltip using the react-popper-tooltip package. The tooltip appears when the user hovers over the button.

import React from 'react';
import { usePopperTooltip } from 'react-popper-tooltip';
import 'react-popper-tooltip/dist/styles.css';

const BasicTooltip = () => {
  const { getTooltipProps, setTooltipRef, setTriggerRef, visible } = usePopperTooltip();

  return (
    <div>
      <button ref={setTriggerRef}>Hover me</button>
      {visible && (
        <div ref={setTooltipRef} {...getTooltipProps({ className: 'tooltip-container' })}>
          Tooltip content
        </div>
      )}
    </div>
  );
};

export default BasicTooltip;

Custom Tooltip

This code demonstrates how to create a custom tooltip that appears on click and is positioned to the right of the trigger element.

import React from 'react';
import { usePopperTooltip } from 'react-popper-tooltip';
import 'react-popper-tooltip/dist/styles.css';

const CustomTooltip = () => {
  const { getTooltipProps, setTooltipRef, setTriggerRef, visible } = usePopperTooltip({
    placement: 'right',
    trigger: 'click',
  });

  return (
    <div>
      <button ref={setTriggerRef}>Click me</button>
      {visible && (
        <div ref={setTooltipRef} {...getTooltipProps({ className: 'tooltip-container' })}>
          Custom Tooltip content
        </div>
      )}
    </div>
  );
};

export default CustomTooltip;

Tooltip with Arrow

This code demonstrates how to create a tooltip with an arrow using the react-popper-tooltip package. The tooltip appears when the user hovers over the button and includes an arrow pointing to the trigger element.

import React from 'react';
import { usePopperTooltip } from 'react-popper-tooltip';
import 'react-popper-tooltip/dist/styles.css';

const TooltipWithArrow = () => {
  const { getArrowProps, getTooltipProps, setTooltipRef, setTriggerRef, visible } = usePopperTooltip({
    arrow: true,
  });

  return (
    <div>
      <button ref={setTriggerRef}>Hover me</button>
      {visible && (
        <div ref={setTooltipRef} {...getTooltipProps({ className: 'tooltip-container' })}>
          Tooltip with arrow
          <div {...getArrowProps({ className: 'tooltip-arrow' })} />
        </div>
      )}
    </div>
  );
};

export default TooltipWithArrow;

Other packages similar to react-popper-tooltip

react-tooltip

react-tooltip is a popular package for creating tooltips in React applications. It offers a wide range of customization options and supports various trigger events. Compared to react-popper-tooltip, react-tooltip is more feature-rich but may have a steeper learning curve.

react-bootstrap

react-bootstrap is a popular UI library for React that includes a Tooltip component. It is built on top of Bootstrap and provides a set of pre-styled components. Compared to react-popper-tooltip, react-bootstrap is more opinionated and may be easier to use for developers already familiar with Bootstrap.

README

React Tooltip

React tooltip component based on react-popper, the React wrapper around popper.js library.

Homepage

https://mohsinulhaq.github.io/react-popper-tooltip/

Example

https://codesandbox.io/s/pykkz77z5j

Usage

npm install react-popper-tooltip

or

yarn add react-popper-tooltip

import React from 'react';
import {render} from 'react-dom';
import TooltipTrigger from 'react-popper-tooltip';

const Tooltip = ({
  arrowRef,
  tooltipRef,
  getArrowProps,
  getTooltipProps,
  placement
}) => (
  <div
    {...getTooltipProps({
      ref: tooltipRef,
      className: 'tooltip-container'
      /* your props here */
    })}
  >
    <div
      {...getArrowProps({
        ref: arrowRef,
        className: 'tooltip-arrow',
        'data-placement': placement
        /* your props here */
      })}
    />
    Hello, World!
  </div>
);

const Trigger = ({getTriggerProps, triggerRef}) => (
  <span
    {...getTriggerProps({
      ref: triggerRef,
      className: 'trigger'
      /* your props here */
    })}
  >
    Click Me!
  </span>
);

render(
  <TooltipTrigger placement="right" trigger="click" tooltip={Tooltip}>
    {Trigger}
  </TooltipTrigger>,
  document.getElementById('root')
);

TooltipTrigger is the only component exposed by the package. It's just a positioning engine. What to render is left completely to the user, which can be provided using render props. Your props should be passed through getTriggerProps, getTooltipProps and getArrowProps.

Read more about render prop pattern if you're not familiar with this approach.

Quick start

If you would like our opinionated container and arrow styles for your tooltip for quick start, you may import react-popper-tooltip/dist/styles.css, and use the classes tooltip-container and tooltip-arrow as follows:

Tooltip.js

import React from 'react';
import TooltipTrigger from 'react-popper-tooltip';
import 'react-popper-tooltip/dist/styles.css';

const Tooltip = ({children, tooltip, hideArrow, ...props}) => (
  <TooltipTrigger
    {...props}
    tooltip={({
      arrowRef,
      tooltipRef,
      getArrowProps,
      getTooltipProps,
      placement
    }) => (
      <div
        {...getTooltipProps({
          ref: tooltipRef,
          className: 'tooltip-container'
        })}
      >
        {!hideArrow && (
          <div
            {...getArrowProps({
              ref: arrowRef,
              className: 'tooltip-arrow',
              'data-placement': placement
            })}
          />
        )}
        {tooltip}
      </div>
    )}
  >
    {({getTriggerProps, triggerRef}) => (
      <span
        {...getTriggerProps({
          ref: triggerRef,
          className: 'trigger'
        })}
      >
        {children}
      </span>
    )}
  </TooltipTrigger>
);

export default Tooltip;

Then you can use it as shown in the example below.

<Tooltip placement="top" trigger="click" tooltip="Hi there!">
  Click me
</Tooltip>

Examples

To fiddle with our example recipes, run:

> npm install
> npm run docs

or

> yarn
> yarn docs

and open up localhost:3000 in your browser.

Props

children

function({}) | required

This is called with an object. Read more about the properties of this object in the section "Children and tooltip functions".

tooltip

function({}) | required

This is called with an object. Read more about the properties of this object in the section "Children and tooltip functions".

defaultTooltipShown

boolean | defaults to false

This is the initial visibility state of the tooltip.

onVisibilityChange

function(tooltipShown: boolean)

Called with the tooltip state, when the visibility of the tooltip changes

tooltipShown

boolean | control prop

Use this prop if you want to control the visibility state of the tooltip.

react-popper-tooltip manages its own state internally. You can use this prop to pass the visibility state of the tooltip from the outside. You will be required to keep this state up to date (this is where onVisibilityChange becomes useful), but you can also control the state from anywhere, be that state from other components, redux, react-router, or anywhere else.

delayShow

number | defaults to 0

Delay in showing the tooltip (ms).

delayHide

number | defaults to 0

Delay in hiding the tooltip (ms).

placement

string | defaults to right

The tooltip placement. Valid placements are:

• auto
• top
• right
• bottom
• left

Each placement can have a variation from this list:

• -start
• -end

trigger

string | defaults to hover

The event that triggers the tooltip. One of click, hover, right-click, none.

getTriggerRef

function(HTMLElement) => void

Function that can be used to obtain a trigger element reference.

closeOnOutOfBoundaries

boolean | defaults to true

Whether to close the tooltip when it's trigger is out of the boundary.

usePortal

boolean | defaults to true

Whether to use React.createPortal for creating tooltip.

portalContainer

HTMLElement | defaults to document.body

Element to be used as portal container

followCursor

boolean | defaults to false

Whether to spawn the tooltip at the cursor position.

Recommended usage with hover trigger and no arrow element

modifiers

object

Modifiers passed directly to the underlying popper.js instance. For more information, refer to Popper.js’ modifier docs

Modifiers, applied by default:

{
  preventOverflow: {
    boundariesElement: 'viewport'
  }
}

Children and tooltip functions

This is where you render whatever you want. react-popper-tooltip uses two render props children and tooltip. Children prop is used to trigger the appearance of the tooltip and tooltip displays the tooltip itself.

You use it like so:

const tooltip = (
  <TooltipTrigger
    tooltip={tooltip => (<div>{/* more jsx here */}</div>)}
  >
    {trigger => (<div>{/* more jsx here */}</div>)}
  </TooltipTrigger>
)

prop getters

See the blog post about prop getters

These functions are used to apply props to the elements that you render. It's advisable to pass all your props to that function rather than applying them on the element yourself to avoid your props being overridden (or overriding the props returned). For example <button {...getTriggerProps({onClick: event => console.log(event))}>Click me</button>

children function

property	type	description
triggerRef	function ref	returns the react ref you should apply to the trigger element.
getTriggerProps	function({})	returns the props you should apply to the trigger element you render.

tooltip function

property	type	description
arrowRef	function ref	return the react ref you should apply to the tooltip arrow element.
tooltipRef	function ref	return the react ref you should apply to the tooltip element.
getArrowProps	function({})	return the props you should apply to the tooltip arrow element.
getTooltipProps	function({})	returns the props you should apply to the tooltip element you render.
placement	string	return the dynamic placement of the tooltip.

Inspiration and Thanks!

This library is based on react-popper, the official react wrapper around Popper.js.

Using of render props, prop getters and doc style of this library are heavily inspired by downshift.