How To Build A Tooltip With Tailwind CSS In 6 Easy Steps?

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Tooltip ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to make a Tooltip ui component?
• The preview of Tooltip ui component
• The source code of Tooltip ui component
• How to make a Tooltip with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 2.0.1
• All the unility class needed to make a Tooltip component
• 30 steps to make a Tooltip component with Tailwind CSS
• Conclusion

What is Tailwind CSS?

Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that focuses on creating personalized user interfaces quickly. It can gives you all the building blocks you are able to create personalized designs without having to fight to override irritating opinionated styles. Also, Tailwind CSS is a highly configurable, low-level CSS framework.

The description of Tooltip ui component

Tooltip

Why use Tailwind CSS to make a Tooltip ui component?

• It can make the building process of Tooltip ui component faster and more easily.
• Enables building complex responsive layouts and components freely.
• Minimum lines of CSS code in Tooltip component file.

The preview of Tooltip ui component

The source code of Tooltip ui component

<div class="min-h-screen bg-gray-100 py-6 flex flex-col justify-center sm:py-12">
  <div class="relative py-3 sm:max-w-xl sm:mx-auto">
    <div class="group cursor-pointer relative inline-block border-b border-gray-400 w-28 text-center">Hover over me
      <div class="opacity-0 w-28 bg-black text-white text-center text-xs rounded-lg py-2 absolute z-10 group-hover:opacity-100 bottom-full -left-1/2 ml-14 px-3 pointer-events-none">
        Tooltip center
        <svg class="absolute text-black h-2 w-full left-0 top-full" x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 255 255" xml:space="preserve"><polygon class="fill-current" points="0,0 127.5,127.5 255,0"/></svg>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

How to make a Tooltip with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 2.0.1

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 2.0.1

<script src="https://cdn.tailwindcss.com"></script>

All the unility class needed to make a Tooltip component

• min-h-screen
• bg-gray-100
• py-6
• flex
• flex-col
• sm:py-12
• relative
• py-3
• sm:max-w-xl
• sm:mx-auto
• inline-block
• border-b
• border-gray-400
• w-28
• text-center
• bg-black
• text-white
• text-xs
• py-2
• absolute
• z-10
• bottom-full
• -left-1/2
• ml-14
• px-3
• text-black
• h-2
• w-full
• left-0
• top-full

30 steps to make a Tooltip component with Tailwind CSS

1. Set the minimum width/height of an element using the min-h-screen utilities.

2. Control the background color of an element to gray-100 using the bg-gray-100 utilities.

3. Control the vertical padding of an element to 1.5rem using the py-6 utilities.

4. Use flex to create a block-level flex container.

5. Use flex to create a block-level flex container.

6. Control the vertical padding of an element to 3rem at only small screen sizes using the sm:py-12 utilities.

7. Use relative to position an element according to the normal flow of the document.

8. Control the vertical padding of an element to 0.75rem using the py-3 utilities.

9. Set the maximum width/height of an element using the sm:max-w-xl utilities at only small screen sizes.

10. Control the horizontal margin of an element to auto at only small screen sizes using the sm:mx-auto utilities.

11. Use inline-block utilities to wrap the element to prevent the text inside from extending beyond its parent.

12. Control the border color of an element to b using the border-b utilities.

13. Control the border color of an element to gray-400 using the border-gray-400 utilities.

14. Use w-28 to set an element to a fixed width(7rem).

15. Control the text color of an element to center using the text-center utilities.

16. Control the background color of an element to black using the bg-black utilities.

17. Control the text color of an element to white using the text-white utilities.

18. Control the text color of an element to xs using the text-xs utilities.

19. Control the vertical padding of an element to 0.5rem using the py-2 utilities.

20. Use absolute to position an element outside of the normal flow of the document, causing neighboring elements to act as if the element doesn’t exist.

21. Control the stack order (or three-dimensional positioning) of an element to 10 in Tailwind, regardless of order it has been displayed, using the z-10 utilities.

22. Use the bottom-full utilities to set the bottom position of a positioned element to full.

23. Use the -left-1/2 utilities to set the left position of a positioned element to 1/2.

24. Control the margin on left side of an element to 3.5rem using the ml-14 utilities.

25. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 0.75rem using the px-3 utilities.

26. Control the text color of an element to black using the text-black utilities.

27. Use h-2 to set an element to a fixed height(0.5rem).

28. Use w-full to set an element to a 100% based width.

29. Use the left-0 utilities to set the left position of a positioned element to 0rem.

30. Use the top-full utilities to set the top position of a positioned element to full.

Conclusion

The above is a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Tailwind CSS to make a Tooltip components, learn and follow along to implement your own components.