Tooltip

Easily create a nice looking tooltip.

Usage

To apply this component, add the uk-tooltip attribute to an element. You also need to add the title: TEXT option to the attribute, whose value will represent your tooltip’s text.

<div uk-tooltip="title: Hello World"></div>

If title is the only option in the attribute value, you can also use uk-tooltip="TEXT"

<div uk-tooltip="Hello World"></div>

<button class="uk-button uk-button-default" uk-tooltip="Hello World">
  Hover
</button>

Alignment

Add one of the following options to the uk-tooltip attribute to adjust the tooltip’s alignment.

<button uk-tooltip="title: Hello World; pos: top-left"></button>

Attribute	Description
`pos: top`	Aligns the tooltip to the top.
`pos: top-left`	Aligns the tooltip to the top left.
`pos: top-right`	Aligns the tooltip to the top right.
`pos: bottom`	Aligns the tooltip to the bottom.
`pos: bottom-left`	Aligns the tooltip to the bottom left.
`pos: bottom-right`	Aligns the tooltip to the bottom right.
`pos: left`	Aligns the tooltip to the left.
`pos: right`	Aligns the tooltip to the right.

<p uk-margin>
  <button class="uk-button uk-button-default" uk-tooltip="Hello World">
    Top
  </button>
  <button
    class="uk-button uk-button-default"
    uk-tooltip="title: Hello World; pos: top-left"
  >
    Top Left
  </button>
  <button
    class="uk-button uk-button-default"
    uk-tooltip="title: Hello World; pos: top-right"
  >
    Top Right
  </button>
  <button
    class="uk-button uk-button-default"
    uk-tooltip="title: Hello World; pos: bottom"
  >
    Bottom
  </button>
  <button
    class="uk-button uk-button-default"
    uk-tooltip="title: Hello World; pos: bottom-left"
  >
    Bottom Left
  </button>
  <button
    class="uk-button uk-button-default"
    uk-tooltip="title: Hello World; pos: bottom-right"
  >
    Bottom Right
  </button>
  <button
    class="uk-button uk-button-default"
    uk-tooltip="title: Hello World; pos: left"
  >
    Left
  </button>
  <button
    class="uk-button uk-button-default"
    uk-tooltip="title: Hello World; pos: right"
  >
    Right
  </button>
</p>

Delay

If you want the tooltip to appear with a little delay, just add the delay option to the uk-tooltip attribute with your value in milliseconds.

<div uk-tooltip="title: Hello World; delay: 500"></div>

<button
  class="uk-button uk-button-default"
  uk-tooltip="title: Hello World; delay: 500"
>
  Hover
</button>

Component options

Any of these options can be applied to the component attribute. Separate multiple options with a semicolon. Learn more

Option	Value	Default	Description
`title`	String		Tooltip text.
`pos`	String	`top-center`	Tooltip position.
`offset`	Number	`false`	Tooltip offset.
`animation`	String	`uk-animation-scale-up`	Space-separated names of animations. Comma-separated for animation out.
`duration`	Number	`100`	The animation duration.
`delay`	Number	`0`	The show delay.
`cls`	String	`uk-active`	The active class.
`container`	String	`body`	Define a target container via a selector to specify where the tooltip should be appended in the DOM.

title is the Primary option and its key may be omitted, if it’s the only option in the attribute value.

<span uk-tooltip="Hello World"></span>

JavaScript

Learn more about JavaScript components.

Initialization

UIkit.tooltip(element, options);

Events

The following events will be triggered on elements, which are injected by this component:

Name	Description
`beforeshow`	Fires before an item is shown. Can prevent showing by calling `preventDefault()` on the event.
`show`	Fires after an item is shown.
`shown`	Fires after the item’s show animation has completed.
`beforehide`	Fires before an item is hidden. Can prevent hiding by calling `preventDefault()` on the event.
`hide`	Fires after an item’s hide animation has started.
`hidden`	Fires after an item is hidden.

Example

UIkit.util.on(document, "show", ".uk-tooltip.uk-active", function () {
  // do something
});

Methods

The following methods are available for the component:

Show

UIkit.tooltip(element).show();

Shows the Tooltip.

Hide

UIkit.tooltip(element).hide();

Hides the Tooltip.

Accessibility

The Tooltip component adheres to the Tooltip Widget WAI-ARIA design pattern and automatically sets the appropriate WAI-ARIA roles, states and properties.

The element with the tooltip has an ID.
The tooltip has the tooltip role and the aria-describedby property set to the ID of the element with the tooltip.

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Usage
Alignment
Delay
Component options
JavaScript
Accessibility