Tooltipps

Tooltipps is a cross-platform tooltip framework designed to deliver contextual hints and help text within software interfaces. It aims to provide predictable, accessible tooltips across web, desktop, and mobile environments, with an emphasis on modularity and developer control.

Core features include a robust positioning engine with automatic collision avoidance, support for mouse, touch, and keyboard input, and ARIA-compliant semantics (role=tooltip, labelledby, describedby). Tooltips can contain plain text or rich HTML content, and can be themed, localized, and lazy-loaded. The system supports automatic placement, offsets, and dismissal strategies such as focus loss or escape.

Architecture and usage: Tooltipps is modular and framework-agnostic. It exposes a core rendering layer and adapters for popular frameworks, as well as a vanilla JavaScript API. Tooltips can be declared via data attributes, configured with a declarative API, or invoked programmatically.

History and reception: Originating from a community-driven effort in the early 2020s, Tooltipps released its first public version in the mid-2020s and has continued with ongoing maintenance. It is used by several UI libraries and web applications seeking consistent, accessible tooltips. Critics note that the library can introduce complexity for small projects, but its accessibility and customization are widely praised.

See also: Tooltip, Popover, UI component library.