Shadcn Tooltip

Shadcn Tooltip: Informative, Interactive Hints for Better UX

The Shadcn Tooltip provides accessible, customizable, and interactive tooltips that help users understand interface elements, providing hints, descriptions, or extra details.

Featuring 15+ tooltip variants, it is designed to enhance the user experience by displaying contextual information without cluttering the interface.

Built with Shadcn and Tailwind CSS, the React Tooltip is perfect for adding interactive, helpful tooltips anywhere in your app.

What is Shadcn Tooltip?

The Shadcn Tooltip component is an overlay that displays additional information when users hover over or focus on an element. It appears as a small popup that gives context or clarification without overwhelming the user interface.

The tooltip is customizable and supports various interactive options such as positioning, animations, and trigger events. It integrates seamlessly with React for easy state management and provides full accessibility support with proper ARIA roles.

Why Use Shadcn Tooltip?

• Accessible by Default: Proper ARIA roles and keyboard navigation support ensure that tooltips are accessible for all users, including those using screen readers.
• Fully Customizable: Tailwind CSS utilities provide full control over the style, positioning, and animation of tooltips.
• Multiple Trigger Types: Tooltips can be triggered by hover, focus, or click events, giving you flexibility in how they appear.
• Lightweight & Performance-Oriented: Efficient rendering of tooltips with minimal impact on performance, even when multiple tooltips are present.
• Improved User Experience: Tooltips provide helpful, non-intrusive information, improving the clarity of your interface.

Features:

• 15+ Variants Included:
  • Basic tooltip, With icons (help, info, warning), Positioned (top, right, bottom, left), Hover-triggered tooltips, Focus-triggered tooltips, Click-triggered tooltips, etc.
• Customizable Positioning: Control the position of the tooltip relative to the target element (top, right, bottom, left).
• Interactive & Rich Content: Tooltips can include links, badges, and other interactive elements to provide more complex content.
• Smooth Animations: Use built-in animations for smooth transitions (fade, scale, slide).
• Tooltip Visibility: Control the visibility with delays, making sure it doesn't show immediately or disappears too quickly.
• Accessibility Support: Fully compatible with screen readers, with proper focus management for keyboard users.
• Customizable Duration: Set how long the tooltip remains visible before disappearing.

Production Tips:

• Provide Clear, Concise Information: Tooltips should provide clear, relevant, and brief information. Avoid overwhelming the user with too much text or complex content.
• Consider Positioning: Ensure that tooltips don't overlap with important content or UI elements. By default, the tooltip has auto-placement features in case there's no space available in a particular direction to ensure the tooltip always fits within the viewport.
• Use for Help or Descriptions: Tooltips are ideal for providing brief descriptions or context for icons, buttons, and links, especially when space is limited.
• Control Visibility & Duration: Use a delay for showing or hiding the tooltip to avoid it flickering or showing too quickly. Consider keeping it visible for a few seconds for better clarity.
• Interactive Tooltips: If the tooltip contains interactive elements (e.g., links or buttons), make sure they are easy to interact with, especially on mobile devices.
• Accessibility Best Practices: Ensure that tooltips are focusable for keyboard users and that they are announced by screen readers when activated.

Integration With Other Components

The Shadcn Tooltip integrates naturally with several other Shadcn components to enhance user interaction and clarity. You can combine it with Shadcn Button to display button actions, pair it with Shadcn Badge for status details, or use it with Shadcn Avatar to show user info on hover.

It also works seamlessly alongside Shadcn Form and Shadcn Input for displaying field-level help in React Tooltip interfaces.

For example, you might attach a Shadcn Tooltip to a Button labeled with an icon, helping users quickly understand its purpose without visible text.

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