A customizable sketch-style tooltip for React, inspired by comic-style speech bubbles. Easily add fun and engaging tooltips to your web application!

Features

Comic-Style Speech Bubbles: Rounded or pointed borders for a playful look.
Tail Positioning: Adjustable tail positions (top, bottom, left, right).
Themes and Colors: With roughjs, you can effortlessly create unique balloon-shaped tooltips by leveraging its wide range of customizable styles!
- https://roughjs.com/
Hover Interaction: Tooltips appear on hover.
HTML Content Support: Supports not only text but also images, links, and other HTML content.
Resizable: Fixed size can be set for tooltips.

Installation

Install the package via npm:

npm install react-sketch-tooltip

Usage

Here’s a basic example to get you started:

import React from "react";
import SketchTooltip from "react-sketch-tooltip";
import "react-sketch-tooltip/react-sketch-tooltip.css"; // You must import the CSS file!

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <SketchTooltip
        content={<div>Here’s a cool tooltip!</div>}
        position="top"
        // Customize the size of the tooltip here!
        size={{
          width: 100,
          height: 20,
          tailWidth: 20,
          tailHeight: 30,
          cornerCurve: 50,
        }}
        // you can customize tooltips
        // using the various styles provided by roughjs!
        styleOptions={{
          roughness: 3,
          stroke: "skyBlue",
          fill: "skyBlue",
          fillStyle: "zigzag",
          strokeWidth: 4,
          hachureGap: 3,
        }}
      >
        <button>Hover me!</button>
      </SketchTooltip>
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Required	Description
`content`	`string` `ReactNode`	-	Yes	The content to display inside the tooltip.
`children`	`ReactNode`	-	Yes	The markup element to display the tooltip.
`position`	`top` `bottom` `left` `right`	`top`	Yes	Position of the tooltip tail.
`size`	`Object`	-	Yes	Tooltip size.
└ `width`	`number`	`100`	No	Width of the tooltip.
└ `height`	`number`	`20`	No	Height of the tooltip.
└ `tailWidth`	`number`	`20`	No	Width of the tooltip's tail.
└ `tailHeight`	`number`	`30`	No	Height of the tooltip's tail.
└ `cornerCurve`	`number`	`50`	No	Radius of the tooltip's corner curve.
└ `leftCanvasMargin`	`number`	`5`	No	Left margin of the tooltip's canvas.
└ `topCanvasMargin`	`number`	`5`	No	Top margin of the tooltip's canvas.
`styleOptions`	`{ [key: string]: unknown }`	`{}`	No	Custom styles for the tooltip.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to enhance react-sketch-tooltip. If you have any ideas or find a bug, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Contact

If you have questions or need help, feel free to reach out or open an issue on the GitHub repository.

Package detail

react-sketch-tooltip

readme