wwayne/react-tooltip
React Tooltip
This project is a React tooltip component and CSS-driven library used to display descriptive text bubbles when users hover over or focus on specific elements. It functions as an accessible UI widget and customizable framework for managing informational popovers within React applications.
The library distinguishes itself through flexible anchor management, allowing a single tooltip instance to be linked to multiple trigger elements via CSS selectors or HTML data attribute binding. It provides specific controls for visibility timing and animation, as well as the ability to disable automatic stylesheet loading for complete custom style injection.
The system covers broad capability areas including spatial positioning and DOM mounting to prevent clipping, interaction trigger configuration for hover or click events, and visual customization through variants and inline styles. It also manages tooltip focus to ensure content remains visible during pointer transitions from the anchor to the tooltip itself.
Features
- Tooltips - Implements UI elements that display supplementary advisory text when users hover over or focus on components.
- React Design System Libraries - Provides a set of descriptive text bubble components designed specifically for React user interfaces.
- Tooltips and Popovers - Functions as a library for positioning and styling informational popovers using CSS selectors.
- Accessible UI Components - Offers UI widgets that provide contextual information while adhering to accessibility and focus standards.
- CSS Selector Target Binding - Allows a single tooltip instance to be linked to multiple trigger elements using CSS selectors.
- Selector-Based Triggering - Links tooltips to specific DOM elements using CSS selectors to trigger displays based on user interaction.
- Coordinate-Based Position Calculators - Calculates real-time screen coordinates of anchor elements to accurately position the tooltip bubble.
- Interaction Binding Selectors - Allows a single tooltip to be linked to multiple elements using shared CSS selectors.
- Event-Driven Visibility Logic - Manages the showing and hiding of tooltips by listening for hover and focus events on registered anchors.
- Anchor Attachments - Connects a single tooltip instance to multiple trigger elements via selectors or wrapper providers.
- Tooltip Positioning Engines - Places tooltips relative to anchor elements using predefined directions and custom offsets.
- Customizable Frameworks - Provides a system for managing tooltip animations, visibility timing, and relative positioning.
- Tooltip Components - Supplies a React component for showing descriptive text bubbles on hover or focus.
- Attribute Binding - Binds tooltip content and identifiers to elements using HTML data attributes to trigger displays.
- DOM Portals - Renders the tooltip container at the root of the document to prevent clipping and nesting issues.
- Accessibility Hints - Provides helpful hints and labels for interactive elements to improve overall web accessibility.
- Focus Maintenance - Ensures tooltips remain visible when users move their pointer from the anchor element to the interactive tooltip content.
- Transitions - Provides controls to adjust the timing and behavior of fade-in and fade-out transitions.
- Visibility Logic - Manages the showing and hiding of tooltips via timing delays and controlled states.
- Visual Styling - Provides options for modifying the visual appearance of tooltips via inline styles and CSS classes.
- Style Injections - Enables the disabling of automatic CSS loading for a completely custom style implementation.
- CSS-Driven Style Customization - Implements bespoke visual styles and animations for information pop-ups using CSS and inline properties.
- Interaction Trigger Configurations - Provides settings to define whether tooltips are triggered by hover or click events.
- Interactive Element Documentation - Links multiple trigger elements to a single descriptive tooltip for consistent information delivery.
- Layer and Tooltip Positioning - Controls the placement, screen offset, and DOM mounting location of tooltips relative to triggers.
- Component Visual Variants - Supports the application of visual presets through variants or custom CSS classes.
- CSS Style Injections - Provides the ability to skip automatic stylesheet loading to implement completely custom visual styles.
- Menus and Tooltips - Standard tooltip component for React.
