vishnubaliga / spiketip

Create effortless tooltips that breathe CSS! No Javascript. Just the good old CSS.

SpikeTip Tooltip

Sleek tooltips spun from CSS

Javascript? Nah. Create effortless tooltips that breathe CSS! No Javascript. Just the good old CSS.

Demo & Playground

You can check more exaples at the website: https://spiketip.netlify.app

You can play with SpikeTip here: https://jsfiddle.net/Baliga/v72fyh6z/

Usage

Installation

Using npm: (prerequisites: css-loader, style-loader)

npm install spiketip-tooltip

import 'spiketip-tooltip/spiketip.min.css'

Manually: Simply download spiketip.min.css from this repo and add it to your HTML. e.g.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/spiketip.min.css">

Alternatively, you can use it via CDN (provided by jsdelivr):

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/spiketip.min.css">

Positioning

For positioning, use spiketip-pos attribute with one of the values: top, bottom, left, right, top-left, top-right, bottom-left or bottom-right:

<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="top">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="left">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="right">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="bottom">Hover me!</button>

<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="top-left">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="top-right">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="bottom-left">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="bottom-right">Hover me!</button>

Color Options

For positioning, use spiketip-color attribute with one of the values: success, error, warning, info:

<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="top" spiketip-color="success">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="left" spiketip-color="error">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="right" spiketip-color="warning">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="bottom" spiketip-color="info">Hover me!</button>

<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="top-left" spiketip-color="warning">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="top-right" spiketip-color="info">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="bottom-left" spiketip-color="success">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="bottom-right" spiketip-color="error">Hover me!</button>

Size

For sizing, use spiketip-length attribute with one of the values: sm, md, lg, xl, auto:

<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="top" spiketip-length="sm">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="left" spiketip-length="md">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="right" spiketip-length="lg">Hover me!</button>
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="bottom" spiketip-length="xl">Hover me!</button> 
<button spiketip-title="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="bottom" spiketip-length="auto">Hover me!</button> 

Showing tooltips programatically

If you want to show tooltips even when user interaction isn't happening, you can simply use the spiketip-visible attribute:

<button spiketip="Whats up!" spiketip-pos="up" id="tooltip-element">Hover me!</button>
<script>
  const btn = document.getElementById('tooltip-element')
  btn.setAttribute('spiketip-visible', '')
</script>

Credits

Developed with ❤ by Vishnu_Baliga