Tooltips are a useful UI element that can provide additional information or context when hovering over a particular element. In this blog post, we will discuss how to style tooltips using Chakra UI, a popular React component library.

Creating a Tooltip Component

First, let’s create a Tooltip component using Chakra UI. We can use the Tooltip component provided by Chakra UI to handle the tooltip functionality.

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

const CustomTooltip = ({ label, children }) => {
  return (
    <Tooltip label={label} placement="top">
      {children}
    </Tooltip>
  );
};

Here, we have created a custom CustomTooltip component that takes label and children as props. The label prop represents the tooltip content, and the children prop represents the element to which the tooltip will be attached.

Styling the Tooltip

Now, let’s explore how to style the tooltip using Chakra UI’s styling capabilities.

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

const CustomTooltip = ({ label, children }) => {
  return (
    <Tooltip label={label} placement="top">
      <Box as="span" color="white" bg="gray.800" px={4} py={2} rounded="md">
        {children}
      </Box>
    </Tooltip>
  );
};

In the above example, we have wrapped the children element inside a Box component to style the tooltip. We have set the background color to gray.800, text color to white, and added padding and rounded corners to the box. You can customize these styles based on your requirements to match your application’s design.

Conclusion

Styling tooltips with Chakra UI is straightforward and allows you to customize the appearance of tooltips to fit the overall design of your application. With the Tooltip component and Chakra UI’s styling capabilities, you have full control over the look and feel of tooltips.

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