Learn How To Make A Tooltip With Tailwind CSS Like an Expert

• What is Tailwind CSS?
• The description of Tooltip ui component
• Why use Tailwind CSS to create a Tooltip ui component?
• The preview of Tooltip ui component
• The source code of Tooltip ui component
• How to create a Tooltip with Tailwind CSS?
• Install tailwind css of verion 2.2.4
• All the unility class needed to create a Tooltip component
• 22 steps to create 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 bottom

Why use Tailwind CSS to create 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

<style>
.tooltip:hover .tooltip-item {
    visibility: visible;
}
</style>

<div class="w-screen bg-gray-100 h-screen flex items-center justify-center">
  <div class="relative inline-block tooltip">
    <a to="" class="hover:text-gray-400 px-2 py-1 font-medium">Help</a>
    <div class="flex flex-col p-4 bg-white w-60 h-80 rounded-md z-20 absolute right-0 invisible tooltip-item ">
      <a href="" class="font-semibold pb-4">Help</a>
      <ul class="list-disc space-y-2">
        <li class="flex items-start">
          <a href="" class="font-medium text-sm text-gray-500 hover:text-black"> Order Status </a>
        </li>
        <li class="flex items-start">
          <a href="" class="font-medium text-sm text-gray-500 hover:text-black"> Shipping & Delivery </a>
        </li>
        <li class="flex items-start">
          <a href="" class="font-medium text-sm text-gray-500 hover:text-black"> Returns </a>
        </li>
        <li class="flex items-start">
          <a href="" class="font-medium text-sm text-gray-500 hover:text-black"> Size Charts </a>
        </li>
        <li class="flex items-start">
          <a href="" class="font-medium text-sm text-gray-500 hover:text-black"> Contact Us </a>
        </li>
        <li class="flex items-start">
          <a href="" class="font-medium text-sm text-gray-500 hover:text-black"> Privacy Policy </a>
        </li>
        <li class="flex items-start">
          <a href="" class="font-medium text-sm text-gray-500 hover:text-black"> Terms of Sale </a>
        </li>
        <li class="flex items-start">
          <a href="" class="font-medium text-sm text-gray-500 hover:text-black"> Terms of Use </a>
        </li>
        <li class="flex items-start">
          <a href="" class="font-medium text-sm text-gray-500 hover:text-black"> Send Us Feedback </a>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

How to create a Tooltip with Tailwind CSS?

Install tailwind css of verion 2.2.4

Use the script html tag to import the script of Tailwind CSS of the version 2.2.4

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

All the unility class needed to create a Tooltip component

• w-screen
• bg-gray-100
• h-screen
• flex
• relative
• inline-block
• hover:text-gray-400
• px-2
• py-1
• flex-col
• p-4
• bg-white
• w-60
• h-80
• z-20
• absolute
• right-0
• invisible
• pb-4
• text-sm
• text-gray-500
• hover:text-black

22 steps to create a Tooltip component with Tailwind CSS

1. Use w-screen to make an element span the entire width of the viewport.

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

3. Use h-screen to make an element span the entire height of the viewport.

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

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

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

7. Control the text color of an element to gray-400 on hover using the hover:text-gray-400 utilities.

8. Control the horizontal padding of an element to 0.5rem using the px-2 utilities.

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

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

11. Control the padding on all sides of an element to 1rem using the p-4 utilities.

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

13. Use w-60 to set an element to a fixed width(15rem).

14. Use h-80 to set an element to a fixed height(20rem).

15. Control the stack order (or three-dimensional positioning) of an element to 20 in Tailwind, regardless of order it has been displayed, using the z-20 utilities.

16. 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.

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

18. Use invisible to hide an element, but still maintain its place in the DOM, affecting the layout of other elements.

19. Control the padding on bottom side of an element to 1rem using the pb-4 utilities.

20. Control the text color of an element to sm using the text-sm utilities.

21. Control the text color of an element to gray-500 using the text-gray-500 utilities.

22. Control the text color of an element to black on hover using the hover:text-black utilities.

Conclusion

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