React Tooltip – Smart Positioning Pop-over for Contextual Information

Overview

The React Tooltip is a small pop-up that shows helpful information when users hover, click, focus, or touch elements like images, buttons, or links. It can display plain text, images, links, or even custom templates, making it flexible and useful for different scenarios.

React Tooltip code example

Create a tooltip in React with a message and target element to make it fully functional. The component provides options to change the position, animation, integration modes, and appearance.

Get started with the React Tooltip by using a few simple lines of TSX code, as demonstrated below. Also, explore this React Tooltip demo, which shows how to render and configure the component.

import { Tooltip } from '@syncfusion/react-popups';
import UserIcon from './user-icon';
import { Button, Variant, Color, Size } from '@syncfusion/react-buttons';

export default function App() {

    return (<div className="component-section tooltip-section">
        <Tooltip content={<>Profile</>} >
            <Button variant={Variant.Standard} color={Color.Secondary} icon={<UserIcon />}></Button>
        </Tooltip>
    </div>);
}

Controlled and uncontrolled modes

The React Tooltip component supports both controlled and uncontrolled modes, offering flexibility in managing its state. This dual-mode capability allows integration into a wide range of application architectures, accommodating different state management strategies.

• Tooltip controlled mode

Tooltip positions

The React Tooltip component offers 12 different positioning options around the target element. A tooltip can be configured to follow the mouse cursor or remain static. For the tip pointer, four directional options are available: right, left, top, and bottom.

• Tooltip positions in React

Animate tooltip

The React Tooltip supports fully customizable animations, which can be shown or hidden as needed. Animation settings include effect type, duration, and delay. Transition effects can also be controlled globally at the application level.

• Types of animation effects demo

Display behavior

The React Tooltip can be displayed or hidden based on various interaction modes, including hover, click, focus, double-click, and custom triggers.

• Display behavior demo