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Primer Design System

Primer Design System

Tooltip

Tooltips add additional context to interactive UI elements and appear on mouse hover or keyboard focus.

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v0.25.1DeprecatedNot reviewed for accessibility
This component is deprecatedPlease consider using an alternative.

Description

Tooltip is a wrapper component that will apply a tooltip to the provided content.

Arguments

NameDefaultDescription
label

N/A

String

the text to appear in the tooltip

direction

:n

String

Direction of the tooltip. One of :e, :n, :ne, :nw, :s, :se, :sw, or :w.

align

:default

String

Align tooltips to the left or right of an element, combined with a direction to specify north or south. One of :default, :left_1, :left_2, :right_1, or :right_2.

multiline

false

Boolean

Use this when you have long content

no_delay

false

Boolean

By default the tooltips have a slight delay before appearing. Set true to override this

system_arguments

N/A

Hash

System arguments