Tooltips are a great way to provide additional information or context to users when they hover over certain elements on a website or application. Chakra UI, a popular React component library, provides a simple and flexible way to work with tooltips.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to use tooltips in Chakra UI and customize their appearance and behavior.

Installation

To get started, make sure you have Chakra UI installed in your project. You can install it by running the following command:

npm install @chakra-ui/react @emotion/react @emotion/styled framer-motion

Basic usage

Once you have Chakra UI installed, you can start using tooltips in your project. Here’s a basic example:

import React from "react";
import { Tooltip } from "@chakra-ui/react";

function App() {
  return (
    <Tooltip label="I am a tooltip">
      <button>Hover over me</button>
    </Tooltip>
  );
}

export default App;

In the above code, we import the Tooltip component from Chakra UI and wrap our desired element (in this case, a button) with it. The label prop is used to define the text of the tooltip.

Customization

Chakra UI provides various props to customize the appearance and behavior of tooltips. Below are some commonly used props:

• hasArrow: Specifies whether the tooltip should have an arrow pointing towards the target element. Default is true.
• placement: Defines the position where the tooltip appears relative to the target element. Possible values: top, right, bottom, left. Default is top.
• offset: Adjusts the offset of the tooltip from the target element.
• bg: Sets the background color of the tooltip.
• color: Sets the text color of the tooltip.

Here’s an example showcasing some of these customization options:

import React from "react";
import { Tooltip } from "@chakra-ui/react";

function App() {
  return (
    <Tooltip label="I am a customized tooltip" color="white" bg="blue.500" placement="right" offset={4}>
      <button>Hover over me</button>
    </Tooltip>
  );
}

export default App;

In this example, we set the tooltip’s text color to white, background color to blue, placement to the right, and added an offset of 4 pixels.

Conclusion

Tooltips are a useful UI component that improves user experience by providing additional information or context. With Chakra UI, working with tooltips becomes a breeze, allowing you to easily customize their appearance and behavior.

By leveraging the power of Chakra UI’s tooltip component, you can enhance your website or application with interactive and informative tooltips that delight your users.

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