Surprisingly Effective Ways To Build A Tooltip With Tailwind CSS

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Tooltip ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to build a Tooltip ui component?
• The preview of Tooltip ui component
• The source code of Tooltip ui component
• How to build a Tooltip with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 2.1.4
• All the unility class needed to build a Tooltip component
• 21 steps to build 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

A black tooltip

Why use Tailwind CSS to build 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="group cursor-help inline-block relative">
  <div class="group-hover:visible visible absolute z-10 w-36 text-center bottom-full left-1/2 transform -translate-x-1/2">
    <div class="relative mx-2">
      <div class="bg-black text-white text-xs rounded py-1 px-4 right-0 bottom-full">
        I'm a tooltip
        <svg class="absolute h-3 w-full left-0 top-full" viewBox="0 0 255 255"><polygon points="0,0 127.5,127.5 255,0"/></svg>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  Hover me!
</div>

How to build a Tooltip with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 2.1.4

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 2.1.4

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

All the unility class needed to build a Tooltip component

• inline-block
• relative
• group-hover:visible
• visible
• absolute
• z-10
• w-36
• text-center
• bottom-full
• left-1/2
• mx-2
• bg-black
• text-white
• text-xs
• py-1
• px-4
• right-0
• h-3
• w-full
• left-0
• top-full

21 steps to build a Tooltip component with Tailwind CSS

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

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

3. Use visible to make an element visible. This is mostly useful for undoing the invisible utility at different screen sizes.

4. Use visible to make an element visible. This is mostly useful for undoing the invisible utility at different screen sizes.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Use w-36 to set an element to a fixed width(9rem).

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

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

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

11. Control the horizontal margin of an element to 0.5rem using the mx-2 utilities.

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

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

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

15. Control the vertical padding of an element to 0.25rem using the py-1 utilities.

16. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 1rem using the px-4 utilities.

17. Use the right-0 utilities to set the right position of a positioned element to 0rem.

18. Use h-3 to set an element to a fixed height(0.75rem).

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

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

21. 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 build a Tooltip components, learn and follow along to implement your own components.