Tooltips

Overview

Things to know when using the tooltip plugin:

• Tooltips rely on the third party library Popper for positioning. You must include popper.min.js before bootstrap.js, or use one bootstrap.bundle.min.js which contains Popper.
• Tooltips are opt-in for performance reasons, so you must initialize them yourself.
• Tooltips with zero-length titles are never displayed.
• Specify container: 'body' to avoid rendering problems in more complex components (like our input groups, button groups, etc).
• 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.

Got all that? Great, let’s see how they work with some examples.

Examples

Enable tooltips

As mentioned above, you must initialize tooltips before they can be used. One way to initialize all tooltips on a page would be to select them by their data-bs-toggle attribute, like so:

const tooltipTriggerList = document.querySelectorAll('[data-bs-toggle="tooltip"]')
const tooltipList = [...tooltipTriggerList].map(tooltipTriggerEl => new bootstrap.Tooltip(tooltipTriggerEl))

Tooltips on links

Hover over the links below to see tooltips:

Custom tooltips

You can customize the appearance of tooltips using CSS variables. We set a custom class with data-bs-custom-class="custom-tooltip" to scope our custom appearance and use it to override a local CSS variable.

Directions

Hover over the buttons below to see the four tooltips directions: top, right, bottom, and left. Directions are mirrored when using Bootstrap in RTL.

<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-placement="top" data-bs-title="Tooltip on top">
  Tooltip on top
</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-placement="right" data-bs-title="Tooltip on right">
  Tooltip on right
</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-placement="bottom" data-bs-title="Tooltip on bottom">
  Tooltip on bottom
</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-placement="left" data-bs-title="Tooltip on left">
  Tooltip on left
</button>

And with custom HTML added:

<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-html="true" data-bs-title="<em>Tooltip</em> <u>with</u> <b>HTML</b>">
  Tooltip with HTML
</button>

With an SVG:

CSS

Variables

As part of Bootstrap’s evolving CSS variables approach, tooltips now use local CSS variables on .tooltip for enhanced real-time customization. Values for the CSS variables are set via Sass, so Sass customization is still supported, too.

--#{$prefix}tooltip-zindex: #{$zindex-tooltip};
--#{$prefix}tooltip-max-width: #{$tooltip-max-width};
--#{$prefix}tooltip-padding-x: #{$tooltip-padding-x};
--#{$prefix}tooltip-padding-y: #{$tooltip-padding-y};
--#{$prefix}tooltip-margin: #{$tooltip-margin};
@include rfs($tooltip-font-size, --#{$prefix}tooltip-font-size);
--#{$prefix}tooltip-color: #{$tooltip-color};
--#{$prefix}tooltip-bg: #{$tooltip-bg};
--#{$prefix}tooltip-border-radius: #{$tooltip-border-radius};
--#{$prefix}tooltip-opacity: #{$tooltip-opacity};
--#{$prefix}tooltip-arrow-width: #{$tooltip-arrow-width};
--#{$prefix}tooltip-arrow-height: #{$tooltip-arrow-height};

Sass variables

$tooltip-font-size: $font-size-sm;
$tooltip-max-width: 200px;
$tooltip-color: var(--#{$prefix}body-bg);
$tooltip-bg: var(--#{$prefix}emphasis-color);
$tooltip-border-radius: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius);
$tooltip-opacity: .9;
$tooltip-padding-y: $spacer * .25;
$tooltip-padding-x: $spacer * .5;
$tooltip-margin: null; // TODO: remove this in v6

$tooltip-arrow-width: .8rem;
$tooltip-arrow-height: .4rem;
// fusv-disable
$tooltip-arrow-color: null; // Deprecated in Bootstrap 5.2.0 for CSS variables
// fusv-enable

Usage

The tooltip plugin generates content and markup on demand, and by default places tooltips after their trigger element. Trigger the tooltip via JavaScript:

const exampleEl = document.getElementById('example')
const tooltip = new bootstrap.Tooltip(exampleEl, options)

const tooltip = new bootstrap.Tooltip('#example', {
  boundary: document.body // or document.querySelector('#boundary')
})

Markup

The required markup for a tooltip is only a data attribute and title on the HTML element you wish to have a tooltip. The generated markup of a tooltip is rather simple, though it does require a position (by default, set to top by the plugin).

<!-- HTML to write -->
<a href="#" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="Some tooltip text!">Hover over me</a>

<!-- Generated markup by the plugin -->
<div class="tooltip bs-tooltip-top" role="tooltip">
  <div class="tooltip-arrow"></div>
  <div class="tooltip-inner">
    Some tooltip text!
  </div>
</div>

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".

Options

As options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript, you can append an option name to data-bs-, as in data-bs-animation="{value}". Make sure to change the case type of the option name from “camelCase” to “kebab-case” when passing the options via data attributes. For example, use data-bs-custom-class="beautifier" instead of data-bs-customClass="beautifier".

As of Bootstrap 5.2.0, all components support an experimental reserved data attribute data-bs-config that can house simple component configuration as a JSON string. When an element has data-bs-config='{"delay":0, "title":123}' and data-bs-title="456" attributes, the final title value will be 456 and the separate data attributes will override values given on data-bs-config. In addition, existing data attributes are able to house JSON values like data-bs-delay='{"show":0,"hide":150}'.

Using function with popperConfig

const tooltip = new bootstrap.Tooltip(element, {
  popperConfig(defaultBsPopperConfig) {
    // const newPopperConfig = {...}
    // use defaultBsPopperConfig if needed...
    // return newPopperConfig
  }
})

Methods

const tooltip = bootstrap.Tooltip.getInstance('#example') // Returns a Bootstrap tooltip instance

// setContent example
tooltip.setContent({ '.tooltip-inner': 'another title' })

Events

const myTooltipEl = document.getElementById('myTooltip')
const tooltip = bootstrap.Tooltip.getOrCreateInstance(myTooltipEl)

myTooltipEl.addEventListener('hidden.bs.tooltip', () => {
  // do something...
})

tooltip.hide()