Simple Flexible jQuery Tooltip Plugin For jQuery - Cooltip.js

Cooltip.js is a simple, flexible jQuery plugin to enhance the default browser tooltips that allow you to display any content inside your tooltips.

Features:

• Custom trigger events: hover or click.
• Accepted directions are top, right, bottom, and left.
• Fully styleable via CSS.

How to use it:

1. Load the jQuery cooltip.js after you have jQuery javascript library loaded.

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/cooltip.js"></script>

2. By default, the tooltip content is extracted from your element's title attribute if not set in config.

<a href="#" id="demo" title="Here is a tooltip!">Hover me</a>

3. The core CSS styles for the tooltip. You can modify or override the CSS rules displayed below to create your own tooltip styles.

.cooltip {
  position: absolute;
  background-color: rgba(20, 20, 20, 0.85);
  color: #fff;
  padding: 0.5rem 0.7rem;
  display: none;
  font-size: 0.85rem;
}

.cooltip.direction-top { margin-top: -0.7rem; }

.cooltip.direction-top:after {
  position: absolute;
  content: "";
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  border-top: 0.4rem solid rgba(20, 20, 20, 0.85);
  border-right: 0.4rem solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 0.4rem solid transparent;
  border-left: 0.4rem solid transparent;
  top: 100%;
 left: calc(50% - .4rem);
}

.cooltip.direction-right { margin-left: 0.7rem; }

.cooltip.direction-right:after {
  position: absolute;
  content: "";
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  border-top: 0.4rem solid transparent;
  border-right: 0.4rem solid rgba(20, 20, 20, 0.85);
  border-bottom: 0.4rem solid transparent;
  border-left: 0.4rem solid transparent;
 top: calc(50% - .4rem);
  right: 100%;
}

.cooltip.direction-bottom { margin-top: 0.7rem; }

.cooltip.direction-bottom:after {
  position: absolute;
  content: "";
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  border-top: 0.4rem solid transparent;
  border-right: 0.4rem solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 0.4rem solid rgba(20, 20, 20, 0.85);
  border-left: 0.4rem solid transparent;
  bottom: 100%;
 left: calc(50% - .4rem);
}

.cooltip.direction-left { margin-left: -0.7rem; }

.cooltip.direction-left:after {
  position: absolute;
  content: "";
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  border-top: 0.4rem solid transparent;
  border-right: 0.4rem solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 0.4rem solid transparent;
  border-left: 0.4rem solid rgba(20, 20, 20, 0.85);
 top: calc(50% - .4rem);
  left: 100%;
}

.cooltip.direction-top.align-right:after, .cooltip.direction-bottom.align-right:after { left: 0.3rem; }

.cooltip.direction-top.align-left:after, .cooltip.direction-bottom.align-left:after {
  left: initial;
  right: 0.3rem;
}

.cooltip.direction-right.align-top:after, .cooltip.direction-left.align-top:after {
  top: initial;
  bottom: 0.3rem;
}

.cooltip.direction-right.align-bottom:after, .cooltip.direction-left.align-bottom:after { top: 0.3rem; }

3. Initialize the tooltip plugin with default settings.

$("a#demo").cooltip({
  // options here 
});

4. Default config options.

$("a#demo").cooltip({

  // top, right, left, bottom
  direction: 'top',

  // hover, focus or click
  trigger: 'hover',

  // top, right, left, bottom
  align: 'middle',

  // custom tooltip attribute
  attr: 'title',

  // additional CSS
  "class": '',

  // enable the tooltip
  enabled: true
  
});

5. Public methods.

// Append a class or multiple classes (separated by spaces) to a tooltip.
$(".has-tip").cooltip('addClass', 'success');

// Remove a class or multiple classes (separated by spaces) to a tooltip.
$(".has-tip").cooltip('removeClass', 'success');

// Destroy the plugin
$(".has-tip").cooltip('destroy');

// Enable a tooltip that was previously disabled to show on triggering event.
$(".has-tip").cooltip('enable');

// Disable a tooltip from showing on the triggering event.
$(".has-tip").cooltip('disable');

// Update the tooltip contents. Useful for when the target's title (or corresponding tooltip attribute) is changed.
$(".has-tip").cooltip('update');

Change logs:

2015-08-30

• Only set zindex if set through JS to avoid CSS overriding

2015-08-27

• Add removal watch for target to prevent tooltips from persisting on target removal

2015-08-25

• Add destroy method
• Update 'update' method to reposition tooltip

2015-08-23

• Added trigger event 'focus'; improved custom classes

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by jaketlarson. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.