Tooltips

React Bootstrap 5 Tooltips component

Documentation and examples for adding custom tooltips with React.

Note: Read the API tab to find all available options and advanced customization

Basic example

Hover the link to see the tooltip

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Overview

Things to know when using the tooltip plugin:

  • Tooltips are opt-in for performance reasons, so you must initialize them yourself.
  • Tooltips with zero-length titles are never displayed.
  • Triggering tooltips on hidden elements will not work.
  • Tooltips for .disabled or disabled elements must be triggered on a wrapper element.
  • When triggered from hyperlinks that span multiple lines, tooltips will be centered. Use white-space: nowrap; on your <a>s to avoid this behavior.
  • Tooltips must be hidden before their corresponding elements have been removed from the DOM.
  • Tooltips can be triggered thanks to an element inside a shadow DOM.

Four directions

Hover over the buttons below to see the four tooltips directions: top, right, bottom, and left.

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And with custom HTML added:

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Disabled elements

Elements with the disabled attribute aren’t interactive, meaning users cannot focus, hover, or click them to trigger a tooltip (or popover). As a workaround, you’ll want to trigger the tooltip from a wrapper <div> or <span>, ideally made keyboard-focusable using tabIndex={0}, and override the pointer-events on the disabled element.

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