stimulus-tooltip v1.0.0

stimulus-tooltip

A stimulus controller for simple tooltip.

Dependencies

• @hotwired/stimulus 3.0

Installation

Install from npm:

$ npm install @kanety/stimulus-tooltip --save

Usage

Register controller:

import { Application } from '@hotwired/stimulus';
import TooltipController from '@kanety/stimulus-tooltip';

const application = Application.start();
application.register('tooltip', TooltipController);

Import css:

@import '@kanety/stimulus-tooltip';

Build html as follows:

<span class="st-tooltip"
      data-controller="tooltip"
      data-action="mouseover->tooltip#show mouseout->tooltip#hide">
  <span data-tooltip-target="content">
    Content
  </span>
  <span class="st-tooltip__tip" data-tooltip-target="tip">
    Tooltip
  </span>
</span>

Options

position

Show tooltip at specified position of the content:

<span class="st-tooltip"
      data-controller="tooltip"
      data-action="mouseover->tooltip#show mouseout->tooltip#hide"
      data-tooltip-position-value="top-start">
  ...
</span>

Default is top-start. Available positions are:

• top-start
• top-end
• bottom-start
• bottom-end
• left-start
• left-end
• right-start
• right-end

Following shorthands are also available:

• top: shorthand of top-start
• bottom: shorthand of bottom-start
• left: shorthand of left-start
• right: shorthand of right-start

Note that the position is changed automatically if the tooltip is not visible in the window.

Callbacks

Run callbacks when a tooltip is shown or hidden:

let element = document.querySelector('[data-controller="tooltip"]');
element.addEventListener('tooltip:shown', (e) => {
  console.log('shown: ' + e.detail.tip);
});
element.addEventListener('tooltip:hidden', (e) => {
  console.log('hidden: ' + e.detail.tip);
});

License

The library is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.