How To Create A Tooltip Component With React

In this article, we will create a tooltip component with react and react hooks.

Let’s create a new react application with npx create-react app and delete everything inside the App.js file.

Tooltip Component

Create a new index.js file at the following path: src/Tooltip/index.js .

Let’s start creating our tooltip:

import React from 'react';
export const Tooltip = ({
  children,
  position,
  gap,
  tooltipContent
}) => {
  return <></>;
};

Right now it does nothing but we will fix that later :).

As we can see the component accepts four props: children, position, gap, tooltipContent.

children is an element we want to attach the tooltip to.

position is where we want to display the tooltip. To keep things simple we will accept only four options: top, right, bottom, left.

gap determines the distance between the element and the tooltip.

tooltipContent is an element that will be displayed when the tooltip is rendered.

We’d like to show the tooltip when a user hovers over the desired element and hide the tooltip when the user hovers out. To add necessary event…