The Popover API: Your New Best Friend for Tooltips
October 10, 2024
The Popover API, supported by all major browsers, simplifies tooltip creation. In addition, new CSS features like anchor and @position-try provide more control over tooltip placement and behaviour, enabling customisation and delivering a smooth user experience. So, how do these new tools make implementing tooltips easier? Let’s take a closer look.
Tooltips (and dial boxes and other content that sits over the other contents of a web page) are a long standing UI pattern–and a traditionally very challenging one. The Popover API aims to solve most of the pain of developing these kinds of elements.
