Background
I have an HTML div which contains a ‘tooltip’-like feature (i.e., a text box pops up when a certain element is clicked or hovered over); this tooltip has decorative pseudo-elements to make it look like a ‘speech bubble,’ added in css as :before and :after .
I have a JS script, which is intended to show and hide the tooltip and decoration, in response to click events (i.e., toggle them between ‘show’ and ‘hide’ states).
Problem
I can’t get the decorative pseudo-elements to hide when the tooltip is hidden; as pseudo-elements, they are not part of the DOM and so I can’t use normal selectors to manipulate them.
When the tooltip is hidden on click, the decorative pseudo-elements persist, which is not a usable result.
I can’t do away with the decorative elements, they are part of the work specification.
Approach tried so far
Based on this question, my thought was to add an empty span with its own class, to which I’d prepend and append these pseudo-elements. Then, add or remove the class on click based on whether it exists already, or not.
I have also tried setting the class to which the pseudo-elements are pre/appended to display:none on click, but this also seems not to work
However, I cannot convince the pseudo-elements to hide on click.
I’ve included a screenshot of what these remnant pseudo-elements look like in the live environment.
Note: I tried to work up a running simulation for the purpose of this question, but I wasn’t able to and the original css file is massive; the code included below is for reference only.
All guidance is much appreciated!
const barContainer = document.querySelector(".bar-container");
const decorationElement = document.querySelector("#decoration");
document.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
console.log('click event listener triggered');
if (event.target.closest('.link') || event.target.classList.contains('link')) {
if (barContainer.classList.contains('open')) {
barContainer.classList.remove('open')
decorationElement.classList.remove('decoration')
document.querySelector('.tooltip-container').setAttribute('style', 'display:none');
} else {
barContainer.classList.add('open')
decorationElement.classList.add('decoration')
document.querySelector('.tooltip-container').setAttribute('style', 'display:block');
}
} else {
barContainer.classList.remove('open')
decorationElement.classList.remove('decoration')
document.querySelector('.tooltip-container').setAttribute('style', 'display:none');
}
});
.foo-container {
height: auto;
position: relative;
}
.bar-container {
height: auto;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
}
.bar-container:hover .tooltip-container,
.tooltip-container:hover,
.bar-container.open .tooltip-container {
position: absolute;
display: block;
text-align: left;
background-color: #ffffff;
box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
bottom: 50px;
right: 5%;
border-radius: 4%;
font-weight: 300;
max-width: 90%;
font-size: 14px;
padding: 20px 0;
}
/*the below two rule sets create the rotated 'decoration' */
.bar-container:hover .tooltip-container:before,
.tooltip-container:hover:before,
.bar-container.open .tooltip-container:before,
.foo-container .bar-container:hover .decoration:before {
content: "";
width: 65px;
height: 35px;
position: absolute;
overflow: hidden;
transform: rotate(-180deg);
z-index: 10;
bottom: 0;
left: 170px;
background-color: white;
}
.foo-container .bar-container.open .decoration:before,
.foo-container .bar-container:hover .decoration:before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
background: #fff;
transform: rotate(45deg);
left: 30px;
box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
z-index: 2;
top: -42px;
}
/* end 'deocration' */
<div class="foo-container">
<div class="bar-container">
<p>text <span class='link'>the-link<span id='decoration' class='decoration'></span></span>
</p>
<div class='tooltip-container'>
<p>lorem </p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Screenshot of the undesirable 'persistent pseudo-elements' behavior -->
I need help keeping my CSS tooltip on screen for my website. It unfortunately is too big for the website near the edge of the screen and also is WAY too big for any mobile device and doesn't position correctly (probably because I plan to add very large descriptions in each tooltip). I would like to just use CSS but would be willing to use JS as I'm starting to think that may be the only way to do it correctly, but I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out how to make it work.
I basically had copied over the code from another website with many tweaks if it helps you understand my code better: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_tooltip.asp
The only results I could find online were about centering the tooltip on the screen which strangely didn't work and code using SCSS which I'm not experienced with and would prefer not to use.
Here is my partial HTML and CSS code:
body {
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
.ref {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
}
.ref .versekjv {
visibility: hidden;
width: 250px;
background-color: black;
color: #fff;
text-align: left;
padding: 5px;
border-radius: 6px;
z-index: 98;
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -125px;
flex-direction: column;
}
.ref .versekjv::after {
content: " ";
position: absolute;
bottom: 100%;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -5px;
border-width: 5px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: transparent transparent black transparent;
}
.ref:hover .versekjv {
visibility: visible;
}
.redletters {
color:red;
}
#media screen and (max-width:1000px){
.ref .versekjv {
font-size: 1rem;
max-width: 20rem;
position: fixed;
bottom: auto; top: 13%;
left: 78%;
text-align: left;
transform: translate(-50%);
transform: translateX(-50%);
white-space: normal;
z-index: 98;
}
.ref .versekjv::after {
border-color: transparent;
}
}
<li class="box"><a>
<div class="innerbox">Reference</div>
<div class="innerbox"><u class="ref">Reference<span class="versekjv"><b>Bible Book</b><p><i>#</i> Verse Text</p></span></u></div>
<div class="innerbox"><u class="ref">Reference<span class="versekjv"><b>Bible Book</b><p><i>#</i> Verse Text</p></span></u>; <u class="ref">Reference<span class="versekjv"><b>Bible Book</b><p><i>Verse Num.</i> Verse Text</p></span></u></div>
</a></li>
Thank you so much for your help!
First, you need to get the DOM object of your tooltip,
let tooltip = document.querySelector(".ref .versekjv")
Then, you can use the js method "getBoundingClientRect", which gives you an object that has top, right, left and bottom fields which give you the distances of your element from top, right, left and bottom of the viewport. If your element is fully visible inside the element, all four fields would be positive numbers, otherwise it means it's partly invisible, for example a left field of "-10" means about 10px of length of your elements is beyond the left edge of the viewport.
What you can do is that you always check the top, left, ... distances of your element, and if they are negative numbers, manually change them and thus position your element correctly, which could be achieved like this:
tooltip.style.left = 20
I'm trying to create a custom Tooltip component where the direction of the tooltip is passed via a prop:
Hello, <Tooltip>Right tooltip (Hover).</Tooltip>
I made this component, which works fine with inline elements, has position issues when it comes to a component with block elements:
Hello, <Tooltip><div className="box">This has click event tooltip with a block element.</div></Tooltip>
The issue is when a tooltip has a block element as its child, the tooltip misaligns and completely breaks.
Is there an approach where the tooltip can be positioned on the center edge of the component, just like how it works with inline text?
How can I fix this?
I've changed margin-bottom: 0; to margin-bottom: -6px; for tooltip triangle to plced in center of tooltip edge.
[data-tooltip-dir="left"]:before {
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: -12px;
margin-bottom: -6px;
border-top-color: transparent;
border-left-color: #000;
border-left-color: hsla(0, 0%, 20%, 0.9);
}
[data-tooltip-dir="right"]:before {
margin-bottom: -6px;
margin-left: -12px;
border-top-color: transparent;
border-right-color: #000;
border-right-color: hsla(0, 0%, 20%, 0.9);
}
then
.tooltip {
position: relative;
cursor: pointer;
display: inline-block;
}
Here is the sandbox containing the fixed version.hope to solve your problem!
Update
For Next.js and style jsx
accesing to data-attribute in <style jsx> is a bit different.insted of
[data-tooltip-dir="left"] you should use class name in front of [] like this
.tooltip[data-tooltip-dir="left"]
temporary sandbox
Example:
Link
How do I change the presentation of the "title" attribute in the browser?. By default, it just has yellow background and small font. I would like to make it bigger and change the background color.
Is there a CSS way to style the title attribute?
It seems that there is in fact a pure CSS solution, requiring only the css attr expression, generated content and attribute selectors (which suggests that it works as far back as IE8):
https://jsfiddle.net/z42r2vv0/2/
a {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
margin-top: 20px;
}
a[title]:hover::after {
content: attr(title);
position: absolute;
top: -100%;
left: 0;
}
<a href="http://www.google.com/" title="Hello world!">
Hover over me
</a>
update w/ input from #ViROscar: please note that it's not necessary to use any specific attribute, although I've used the "title" attribute in the example above; actually my recommendation would be to use the "alt" attribute, as there is some chance that the content will be accessible to users unable to benefit from CSS.
update again I'm not changing the code because the "title" attribute has basically come to mean the "tooltip" attribute, and it's probably not a good idea to hide important text inside a field only accessible on hover, but if you're interested in making this text accessible the "aria-label" attribute seems like the best place for it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_aria-label_attribute
You can't style an actual title attribute
How the text in the title attribute is displayed is defined by the browser and varies from browser to browser. It's not possible for a webpage to apply any style to the tooltip that the browser displays based on the title attribute.
However, you can create something very similar using other attributes.
You can make a pseudo-tooltip with CSS and a custom attribute (e.g. data-title)
For this, I'd use a data-title attribute. data-* attributes are a method to store custom data in DOM elements/HTML. There are multiple ways of accessing them. Importantly, they can be selected by CSS.
Given that you can use CSS to select elements with data-title attributes, you can then use CSS to create :after (or :before) content that contains the value of the attribute using attr().
Styled tooltip Examples
Bigger and with a different background color (per question's request):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip (bigger and with a different background color, as requested in the question)<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
More elaborate styling (adapted from this blog post):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
position: absolute;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
padding: 4px 4px 4px 8px;
color: #222;
white-space: nowrap;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, #f8f8f8),color-stop(1, #cccccc));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
opacity: 0;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
Known issues
Unlike a real title tooltip, the tooltip produced by the above CSS is not, necessarily, guaranteed to be visible on the page (i.e. it might be outside the visible area). On the other hand, it is guaranteed to be within the current window, which is not the case for an actual tooltip.
In addition, the pseudo-tooltip is positioned relative to the element that has the pseudo-tooltip rather than relative to where the mouse is on that element. You may want to fine-tune where the pseudo-tooltip is displayed. Having it appear in a known location relative to the element can be a benefit or a drawback, depending on the situation.
You can't use :before or :after on elements which are not containers
There's a good explanation in this answer to "Can I use a :before or :after pseudo-element on an input field?"
Effectively, this means that you can't use this method directly on elements like <input type="text"/>, <textarea/>, <img>, etc. The easy solution is to wrap the element that's not a container in a <span> or <div> and have the pseudo-tooltip on the container.
Examples of using a pseudo-tooltip on a <span> wrapping a non-container element:
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
.pseudo-tooltip-wrapper {
/*This causes the wrapping element to be the same size as what it contains.*/
display: inline-block;
}
Text input with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="input type="text""><input type='text'></span><br/><br/><br/>
Textarea with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="this is a textarea"><textarea data-title="this is a textarea"></textarea></span><br/>
From the code on the blog post linked above (which I first saw in an answer here that plagiarized it), it appeared obvious to me to use a data-* attribute instead of the title attribute. Doing so was also suggested in a comment by snostorm on that (now deleted) answer.
Here is an example of how to do it:
a.tip {
border-bottom: 1px dashed;
text-decoration: none
}
a.tip:hover {
cursor: help;
position: relative
}
a.tip span {
display: none
}
a.tip:hover span {
border: #c0c0c0 1px dotted;
padding: 5px 20px 5px 5px;
display: block;
z-index: 100;
background: url(../images/status-info.png) #f0f0f0 no-repeat 100% 5%;
left: 0px;
margin: 10px;
width: 250px;
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
text-decoration: none
}
Link<span>This is the CSS tooltip showing up when you mouse over the link</span>
CSS can't change the tooltip appearance. It is browser/OS-dependent. If you want something different you'll have to use Javascript to generate markup when you hover over the element instead of the default tooltip.
I have found the answer here: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/11/how-to-create-a-simple-css3-tooltip/
my own code goes like this, I have changed the attribute name, if you maintain the title name for the attribute you end up having two popups for the same text, another change is that my text on hovering displays underneath the exposed text.
.tags {
display: inline;
position: relative;
}
.tags:hover:after {
background: #333;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .8);
border-radius: 5px;
bottom: -34px;
color: #fff;
content: attr(data-gloss);
left: 20%;
padding: 5px 15px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 98;
width: 350px;
}
.tags:hover:before {
border: solid;
border-color: #333 transparent;
border-width: 0 6px 6px 6px;
bottom: -4px;
content: "";
left: 50%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 99;
}
<a class="tags" data-gloss="Text shown on hovering">Exposed text</a>
I thought i'd post my 20 lines JavaScript solution here. It is not perfect, but may be useful for some depending on what you need from your tooltips.
When to use it
Automatically styles the tooltip for all HTML elements with a TITLE attribute defined (this includes elements dynamically added to the document in the future)
No Javascript/HTML changes or hacks required for every tooltip (just the TITLE attribute, semantically clear)
Very light (adds about 300 bytes gzipped and minified)
You want only a very basic styleable tooltip
When NOT to use
Requires jQuery, so do not use if you don't use jQuery
Bad support for nested elements that both have tooltips
You need more than one tooltip on the screen at the same time
You need the tooltip to disappear after some time
The code
// Use a closure to keep vars out of global scope
(function () {
var ID = "tooltip", CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON", FOLLOW = true,
DATA = "_tooltip", OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10,
showAt = function (e) {
var ntop = e.pageY + OFFSET_Y, nleft = e.pageX + OFFSET_X;
$("#" + ID).html($(e.target).data(DATA)).css({
position: "absolute", top: ntop, left: nleft
}).show();
};
$(document).on("mouseenter", "*[title]", function (e) {
$(this).data(DATA, $(this).attr("title"));
$(this).removeAttr("title").addClass(CLS_ON);
$("<div id='" + ID + "' />").appendTo("body");
showAt(e);
});
$(document).on("mouseleave", "." + CLS_ON, function (e) {
$(this).attr("title", $(this).data(DATA)).removeClass(CLS_ON);
$("#" + ID).remove();
});
if (FOLLOW) { $(document).on("mousemove", "." + CLS_ON, showAt); }
}());
Paste it anywhere, it should work even when you run this code before the DOM is ready (it just won't show your tooltips until DOM is ready).
Customize
You can change the var declarations on the second line to customize it a bit.
var ID = "tooltip"; // The ID of the styleable tooltip
var CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var FOLLOW = true; // TRUE to enable mouse following, FALSE to have static tooltips
var DATA = "_tooltip"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10; // Tooltip's distance to the cursor
Style
You can now style your tooltips using the following CSS:
#tooltip {
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid red;
padding: 3px 10px;
}
A jsfiddle for custom tooltip pattern is Here
It is based on CSS Positioning and pseduo class selectors
Check MDN docs for cross-browser support of pseudo classes
<!-- HTML -->
<p>
<a href="http://www.google.com/" class="tooltip">
I am a
<span> (This website rocks) </span></a> a developer.
</p>
/*CSS*/
a.tooltip {
position: relative;
}
a.tooltip span {
display: none;
}
a.tooltip:hover span, a.tooltip:focus span {
display:block;
position:absolute;
top:1em;
left:1.5em;
padding: 0.2em 0.6em;
border:1px solid #996633;
background-color:#FFFF66;
color:#000;
}
Native tooltip cannot be styled.
That being said, you can use some library that would show styles floating layers when element is being hovered (instead of the native tooltips, and suppress them) requiring little or no code modifications...
You cannot style the default browser tooltip. But you can use javascript to create your own custom HTML tooltips.
a[title="My site"] {
color: red;
}
This also works with any attribute you want to add for instance:
HTML
<div class="my_class" anything="whatever">My Stuff</div>
CSS
.my_class[anything="whatever"] {
color: red;
}
See it work at: http://jsfiddle.net/vpYWE/1/
EDIT: Here's a Youtube video that illustrates my problem:
http://youtu.be/OguwjZR_GdU
On my website Black Star Opal I've been trying to implement a sticky menu, much like this one Dansk Kids. I looked at the Dansk Kids website javascript and CSS: there seems to be no javascript involved in their menu (other than the removal of the logo underneath their sticky menu when they scroll). I want my sticky menu to be as smooth as theirs if possible (ie staying flush with the url bar as it pops in and out).
Here's my css for #carttrans, the menu div:
position: fixed;
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
height: 49px;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
width: 100% !important;
z-index: 10000;
text-align: center;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-left: 7px;
border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);
border-left: none;
border-right: none;
border-bottom-style: solid !important;
border-bottom-width: 1px !important;
border-bottom-color: rgb(221,221,221) !important;
-webkit-transform: translateZ(0);
I also use this js code (only because the menu wouldn't display on iOS Safari without it, although I'm unsure why):
$(function() {
// grab the initial top offset of the navigation
var sticky_navigation_offset_top = $('#carttrans').offset().top;
// our function that decides weather the navigation bar should have "fixed" css position or not.
var sticky_navigation = function(){
var scroll_top = $(window).scrollTop(); // our current vertical position from the top
if ($(window).width() < 500)
{
// if we've scrolled more than the navigation, change its position to fixed to stick to top, otherwise change it back to relative
if (scroll_top > sticky_navigation_offset_top) {
$('#carttrans').css({ 'position': 'fixed', 'top':0, 'left':0 });
} else {
$('#carttrans').css({ 'position': 'fixed' });
}
}
};
// run our function on load
sticky_navigation();
// and run it again every time you scroll
$(window).scroll(function() {
sticky_navigation();
});
});
I even removed all the elements in the menu and just left the blank white bar there to see if it would do the same thing. It popped in and out awkardly just like before.
Any help with this would be amazing.
EDIT: As I said below, it's the URL bar popping in and out that seems to be disturbing my sticky menus. It could possibly be a repaint issue or slow down, because on other sites the disappearance of the url bar and the subsequent movement of the menu (for example, on sticky menu demos) is quite smooth and I'm doing/have tested them with the same url bar popping.
Cheers,
Rob
HTML
<header><h1>Sticky Header</h1></header>
<img src="large-image.jpg" width="782" height="2000" alt="Big Image" />
jQuery (remember to include the jquery library)
$(window).scroll(function() {
if ($(this).scrollTop() > 1){
$('header').addClass("sticky");
}
else{
$('header').removeClass("sticky");
}
});
CSS:
header{
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
font-size: 72px;
line-height: 108px;
height: 108px;
background: #335C7D;
color: #fff;
font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif;
}
header.sticky {
font-size: 24px;
line-height: 48px;
height: 48px;
background: #efc47D;
text-align: left;
padding-left: 20px;
transition: all 0.4s ease;
}
REFERENCES:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2014/05/how-to-create-an-animated-sticky-header-with-css3-and-jquery/
PREVIOUS SAME QUESTION ON STACK OVERFLOW:
CSS Sticky header
I used firebug for firefox and just added the following to your #carttrans ID i am assuming you only want this to stick? If so check the css below replace your #carttrans with the below and lemme know if that is what you want?
#carttrans {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 white;
position: fixed;
text-align: right;
top: 40px;
z-index: 999;
}
Hi i looked at your youtube clip and i see that it could be that the jquery you are using is affecting your main div for the top section #carttrans make sure on this div that your css is marked as important for the top 0px !important so that the jquery won't be able to change it have a try and see if this works?