balloon-css 1.2.0 on npm

Balloon.css: Simple tooltips made of pure CSS.

Simple tooltips made of pure CSS

Balloon.css lets you add tooltips to elements without JavaScript and in just a few lines of CSS.

It weights ~1.1kb minified (Brotli).

Demo & Playground

You can play with Balloon.css here: https://jsfiddle.net/kuzmd942/

You also can check more examples at the website: https://kazzkiq.github.io/balloon.css/

Usage

Installation

Using npm:

npm install balloon-css

You can then import the CSS file directly into your JS (using Webpack, etc):

// Your index.js file, etc.
import 'balloon-css';

or import the source file if using SASS/SCSS:

/* Your main.scss file, etc. */
@import "~balloon-css/src/balloon"

CDN version:

If you don't want to use npm, there is a CDN option:

<!-- This link will always fetch the latest version of Balloon.css -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/balloon-css/balloon.min.css">

Manually: Simply download balloon.min.css from this repo and add it to your HTML. e.g.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/balloon.min.css">

Positioning

For positioning, use data-balloon-pos attribute with one of the values: up, down, left, right, up-left, up-right, down-left or down-right:

<button aria-label="Whats up!" data-balloon-pos="up">Hover me!</button>
<button aria-label="Whats up!" data-balloon-pos="left">Hover me!</button>
<button aria-label="Whats up!" data-balloon-pos="right">Hover me!</button>
<button aria-label="Whats up!" data-balloon-pos="down">Hover me!</button>

<button aria-label="Whats up!" data-balloon-pos="up-left">Hover me!</button>
<button aria-label="Whats up!" data-balloon-pos="up-right">Hover me!</button>
<button aria-label="Whats up!" data-balloon-pos="down-left">Hover me!</button>
<button aria-label="Whats up!" data-balloon-pos="down-right">Hover me!</button>

Showing tooltips programatically

If you want to show tooltips even when user interaction isn't happening, you can simply use the data-balloon-visible attribute:

<button aria-label="Whats up!" data-balloon-pos="up" id="show-tip">Hover me!</button>
<script>
  const btn = document.getElementById('show-tip')
  btn.setAttribute('data-balloon-visible', '')
</script>

Disabling animation

If for some reason you do not want animations in your tooltips, you can use the data-balloon-blunt attribute for that.

<button data-balloon-blunt aria-label="No animation!" data-balloon-pos="up">No animation!</button>

Customizing Tooltips

Balloon.css exposes CSS variables to make it easier to customize tooltips:

--balloon-border-radius
--balloon-color
--balloon-font-size
--balloon-move

This way, you can use custom CSS to make your own tooltip styles:

/* Add this to your CSS */
.tooltip-red {
  --balloon-color: red;
}

.tooltip-big-text {
  --balloon-font-size: 20px;
}

.tooltip-slide {
  --balloon-move: 30px;
}

If you want to customize tooltips globally, use the :root selector:

/* All tooltips would now be square and blue */
:root {
  --balloon-border-radius: 0;
  --balloon-color: blue;
}

Glyphs and Icon Fonts

You can also add any HTML special character to your tooltips, or even use third-party Icon fonts:

<button aria-label="HTML special characters: &#9787; &#9986; &#9820;" data-balloon-pos="up">Hover me!</button>
<button aria-label="Emojis: 😀 😬 😁 😂 😃 😄 😅 😆" data-balloon-pos="up">Hover me!</button>

Example using Font Awesome:

<button class="fa" aria-label="Font Awesome: &#xf030; &#xf133; &#xf1fc; &#xf03e; &#xf1f8;" data-balloon-pos="up">Hover me!</button>

Contributing

Balloon.css is mantained in SASS and LESS. To contribute with bugfixes and enchancements you must follow this steps:

Clone repo. E.g. git clone https://github.com/kazzkiq/balloon.css.git
Run npm install
Edit SASS file and run npm run build to generate the production CSS files.
Make sure to test the production files over the website (branch gh-pages) before submitting a Pull Request.

Note 1: Remember to update the SASS file instead of the generated ones (balloon.css and balloon.min.css are generated on every build from SASS file).