Tooltips

Documentation and examples for adding custom Bootstrap tooltips with CSS and JavaScript using CSS3 for animations and data-attributes for local title storage.

Official documentation

For more detailed information and examples, see the official documentation: Bootstrap 4 tooltips.

Basic example

<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="top" title="Tooltip on top">
  Tooltip on top
</button>

<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="right" title="Tooltip on right">
  Tooltip on right
</button>

<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="Tooltip on bottom">
  Tooltip on bottom
</button>

<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="left" title="Tooltip on left">
  Tooltip on left
</button>

<script>
  $(document).on('ready', function () {
    // initialization of tooltips
    $('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip()
  });
</script>

With Custom HTML

<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-toggle="tooltip" data-html="true" title="<em>Tooltip</em> <u>with</u> <b>HTML</b>">
  Tooltip with HTML
</button>

<script>
  $(document).on('ready', function () {
    // initialization of tooltips
    $('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip()
  });
</script>

JavaScript behavior

For more information, see the official Bootstrap documentation.