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Tippy.js for React
Tippy.js is the complete tooltip, popover, dropdown, and menu solution for the web, powered by Popper.js. It provides the logic and styling involved in all types of elements that pop out from the flow of the document and get overlaid on top of the UI, positioned next to a reference element.
This is a lightweight wrapper that lets you use it declaratively in React.
🚀 Installation
# npm
npm i @tippyjs/react
# Yarn
yarn add @tippyjs/react
CDN: https://unpkg.com/@tippyjs/react
Requires React 16.8+
🖲 Usage
There are two ways to use this component:
- Default: With the built-in DOM rendering and optionally the default CSS
- Headless: With React's DOM rendering for better usage with CSS-in-JS and
spring libraries e.g.
react-spring
Default Tippy
Import the Tippy
component and (optionally) the core CSS. Wrap the <Tippy />
component around the element, supplying the tooltip's content as the content
prop. It can take a string or a tree of React elements.
import React from 'react';
import Tippy from '@tippyjs/react';
import 'tippy.js/dist/tippy.css'; // optional
const StringContent = () => (
<Tippy content="Hello">
<button>My button</button>
</Tippy>
);
const JSXContent = () => (
<Tippy content={<span>Tooltip</span>}>
<button>My button</button>
</Tippy>
);
Default Tippy is very quick to use and setup and "just works" out of the box.
Headless Tippy
Render your own tippy element from scratch:
import React from 'react';
import Tippy from '@tippyjs/react/headless';
const HeadlessTippy = () => (
<Tippy
render={attrs => (
<div className="box" {...attrs}>
My tippy box
</div>
)}
>
<button>My button</button>
</Tippy>
);
attrs
is an object containing data-placement
, data-reference-hidden
, and
data-escaped
attributes. This allows you to conditionally style your tippy if
necessary.
A more advanced example using react-spring
& styled-components
:
import React from 'react';
import Tippy from '@tippyjs/react/headless';
import styled from 'styled-components';
import {useSpring, animated} from 'react-spring';
const Box = styled(animated.div)`
background: #333;
color: white;
padding: 5px 10px;
border-radius: 4px;
`;
function AnimatedHeadlessTippy() {
const config = {tension: 300, friction: 15};
const initialStyles = {opacity: 0, transform: 'scale(0.5)'};
const [props, setSpring] = useSpring(() => initialStyles);
function onMount() {
setSpring({
opacity: 1,
transform: 'scale(1)',
onRest: () => {},
config,
});
}
function onHide({unmount}) {
setSpring({
...initialStyles,
onRest: unmount,
config: {...config, clamp: true},
});
}
return (
<Tippy
render={attrs => (
<Box style={props} {...attrs}>
Hello
</Box>
)}
animation={true}
onMount={onMount}
onHide={onHide}
>
<button>react-spring</button>
</Tippy>
);
}
Arrow
To make Popper position your custom arrow, set a data-popper-arrow
attribute
on it:
<Tippy
render={attrs => (
<Box {...attrs}>
Hello
<Arrow data-popper-arrow="" />
</Box>
)}
>
<button>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
For details on styling the arrow from scratch, take a look at the Popper tutorial.
You may also pass a ref to the element directly without the attribute using a callback ref:
function App() {
const [arrow, setArrow] = useState(null);
return (
<Tippy
render={attrs => (
<Box {...attrs}>
Content
<Arrow ref={setArrow} />
</Box>
)}
popperOptions={{
modifiers: [
{
name: 'arrow',
options: {
element: arrow,
},
},
],
}}
>
<button>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
);
}
Note on Headless Tippy in React
The root popper node is abstracted away and gets styled/mutated by Tippy internally, so Headless Tippy in React is partially headless. This ensures it works correctly with minimal effort on your behalf to render.
When rendering an element with the render
prop, you're rendering the inner box
element that the root popper node wraps, which is what gets styled and animated.
For advanced cases, you can access the parent popper node as instance.popper
in the onCreate
lifecycle hook.
Component children
If you want to use a component element as a child, ensure you forward the ref to the DOM node:
import React, {forwardRef} from 'react';
function ThisWontWork() {
return <button>Reference</button>;
}
const ThisWillWork = forwardRef((props, ref) => {
return <button ref={ref}>Reference</button>;
});
function App() {
return (
<Tippy content="Tooltip">
<ThisWillWork />
</Tippy>
);
}
styled-components
v4+ does this for you automatically, so it should be
seamless when using the styled
constructor.
If you're using a library that doesn't forwardRef
for you, and doesn't give
access to the ref via innerRef
or similar, you can use a wrapper <span>
element as a workaround.
<Tippy content="Tooltip">
<span tabIndex="0">
<LegacyComponent>Reference</LegacyComponent>
</span>
</Tippy>
🧬 Props
All of the native Tippy.js props can be passed to the component.
Visit All Props to view the complete list.
<Tippy
content="Tooltip"
arrow={false}
animation="scale"
duration={0}
delay={[300, 0]}
// ...and many more!
>
<button>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
In addition, there are 3 more props added specifically for the React component.
className?: string
Note: This does not apply if using Headless Tippy
A React alternative to the theme
prop. The className gets added to the tooltip
element's class list as expected, without adding -theme
as a suffix.
<Tippy content="Tooltip" className="hello world">
<button>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
If you're using styled-components
, the className
prop allows you to avoid
global styles with the following technique:
const PurpleTippy = styled(Tippy)`
background: purple;
/* Styling the arrow for different placements */
&[data-placement^='top'] > .tippy-arrow::before {
border-top-color: purple;
}
`;
See themes for more information.
disabled?: boolean
function App() {
const [disabled, setDisabled] = useState(false);
return (
<Tippy content="Tooltip" disabled={disabled}>
<button>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
);
}
visible?: boolean
(controlled mode)
Use React's state to fully control the tippy instead of relying on the native
trigger
and hideOnClick
props:
function App() {
const [visible, setVisible] = useState(true);
const show = () => setVisible(true);
const hide = () => setVisible(false);
return (
<Tippy content="Tooltip" visible={visible} onClickOutside={hide}>
<button onClick={visible ? hide : show}>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
);
}
Plugins
Tippy.js splits certain props into separate pieces of code called plugins to enable treeshaking, so that users who don't need the prop's functionality are not burdened with the cost of it.
import Tippy from '@tippyjs/react';
import {followCursor} from 'tippy.js';
function App() {
return (
<Tippy content="Tooltip" followCursor={true} plugins={[followCursor]}>
<button>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
);
}
🌈 Multiple tippies on a single element
You can nest the components like so:
<Tippy content="Tooltip" placement="bottom">
<Tippy content="Tooltip" placement="left">
<Tippy content="Tooltip" placement="right">
<Tippy content="Tooltip">
<button>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
</Tippy>
</Tippy>
</Tippy>
📚 useSingleton
A Hook for the
createSingleton()
addon.
import Tippy, {useSingleton} from '@tippyjs/react';
function App() {
const [source, target] = useSingleton();
return (
<>
{/* This is the tippy that gets used as the singleton */}
<Tippy singleton={source} delay={500} />
{/* These become "virtual" */}
<Tippy content="Hello" singleton={target}>
<button>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
<Tippy content="Bye" singleton={target}>
<button>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
</>
);
}
useSingleton()
takes an optional props argument:
const [source, target] = useSingleton({
disabled: true,
overrides: ['placement'],
});
Headless singleton
The render
prop takes the singleton content as a second parameter:
import Tippy, {useSingleton} from '@tippyjs/react/headless';
function App() {
const [source, target] = useSingleton();
return (
<>
<Tippy
singleton={source}
render={(attrs, content) => (
<div className="box" {...attrs}>
{content}
</div>
)}
delay={500}
/>
<Tippy content="Hello" singleton={target}>
<button>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
<Tippy content="Bye" singleton={target}>
<button>Reference</button>
</Tippy>
</>
);
}
📝 License
MIT