What is a Tooltip?
Explore how to create tooltips like those on Medium using client-side JavaScript and CSS. Learn to position tooltips accurately and trigger their appearance with smooth animations, enhancing your frontend component skills.
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We’ll build a little to something heavier on the client-side of JavaScript. We’ll be building tooltips from Medium. If you aren’t familiar with these, head on over to Medium.com, click on any article, and highlight some text.
I chose this component because it’s heavier on client-side JavaScript and has a bit of animation (but is otherwise light on CSS).
Take some time to think about how you’d approach building this. How do you start? How does the tooltip get positioned? How does it show up at the right moment?