Chakra UI is a popular React component library that provides a set of customizable UI components. One useful component in Chakra UI is the Tooltip component, which allows you to add informational or explanatory tooltips to your UI elements. In this blog post, we will explore how to use the Tooltip component in Chakra UI.

Installation

To use the Tooltip component in your React project, you first need to install Chakra UI. You can do so by running the following command:

npm install @chakra-ui/react @emotion/react@^11 @emotion/styled@^11 framer-motion@^4

Basic Usage

Once you have Chakra UI installed, you can start using the Tooltip component in your application.

To create a tooltip, you need to wrap the element you want to add the tooltip to in a Tooltip component and provide the label prop with the tooltip text. Here’s an example:

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

function App() {
  return (
    <Box>
      <Tooltip label="This is a tooltip" placement="top">
        <Button>Hover me</Button>
      </Tooltip>
    </Box>
  );
}

In the code snippet above, we import the Tooltip component from Chakra UI and wrap the Button component with it. We provide the label prop with the text “This is a tooltip” and the placement prop with the desired placement of the tooltip. In this case, we set it to “top”.

Styling the Tooltip

Chakra UI provides a set of props that allow you to customize the styling of the Tooltip component. You can change the background color, text color, arrow size, and more. Here’s an example:

<Tooltip label="This is a stylish tooltip" bg="blue.500" color="white" arrowSize={6}>
  <Button>Hover me</Button>
</Tooltip>

In the code snippet above, we’ve added some style to the tooltip. We set the background color to blue, the text color to white, and increased the arrow size to 6.

Conclusion

The Tooltip component in Chakra UI is a handy tool for providing additional information or explanations to your UI elements. By following the steps outlined in this blog post, you can easily implement tooltips in your React application using Chakra UI.

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