Example – integrating Tippy.js

Tippy.js is a tooltip, popover, dropdown, and menu library.

I do not have any affiliation with the Tippy.js library, and the reason I chose Tippy.js as an example is purely by chance. Nonetheless, Tippy.js has a nice and simple API, making it a good candidate for an example.

First, let’s look at the Tippy.js documentation: https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/.

After installing the tippy.js library using a package manager of our choice, we can then import Tippy.js into our code:

import tippy from 'tippy.js';
import 'tippy.js/dist/tippy.css';

Now, we can initialize tippy with the following constructor function:

tippy('#id');
tippy(document.getElementById('my-element'));

Here, we pass in the element where Tippy.js should provide a tooltip.

You can specify any customizations of the tooltip's content through the data attributes of the element, which Tippy.js will pick up as it initializes...