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Tooltip

Hover and focus hints for icon buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and truncated labels — with the neobrutalist border-and-shadow treatment.

import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
import {
  Tooltip,

The tooltip is a short label that appears on hover or keyboard focus and describes the control it wraps — supplemental text, never a place for interactive content. Built on the Base UI Tooltip primitive, portalled and collision-aware, and styled to the neobrutalist recipe: thick border, hard shadow, and an inverted fill so it reads on any background.

Reach for it when:

  • Icon-only buttons — name the action a bare icon can't: toolbars, table row actions, editor controls.
  • Keyboard shortcuts — spell out the binding next to the label with Kbd, as in the example below.
  • Truncated or terse text — full file names, clipped table cells, abbreviated status codes.

Installation

Run the following command:

pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add https://neobrutalism.com/r/base/tooltip.json
npx shadcn@latest add https://neobrutalism.com/r/base/tooltip.json
yarn dlx shadcn@latest add https://neobrutalism.com/r/base/tooltip.json
bunx --bun shadcn@latest add https://neobrutalism.com/r/base/tooltip.json

Add the TooltipProvider to the root of your app.

app/layout.tsx
import { TooltipProvider } from "@/components/ui/tooltip"
 
export default function RootLayout({ children }) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <body>
        <TooltipProvider>{children}</TooltipProvider>
      </body>
    </html>
  )
}

Install the following dependencies:

pnpm add @base-ui/react
npm install @base-ui/react
yarn add @base-ui/react
bun add @base-ui/react

Copy and paste the following code into your project.

components/ui/tooltip.tsx
"use client"

import * as React from "react"
import { Tooltip as TooltipPrimitive } from "radix-ui"

import { cn } from "@/lib/utils"

function TooltipProvider({
  delayDuration = 0,
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof TooltipPrimitive.Provider>) {
  return (
    <TooltipPrimitive.Provider
      data-slot="tooltip-provider"
      delayDuration={delayDuration}
      {...props}
    />
  )
}

function Tooltip({
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof TooltipPrimitive.Root>) {
  return <TooltipPrimitive.Root data-slot="tooltip" {...props} />
}

function TooltipTrigger({
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof TooltipPrimitive.Trigger>) {
  return <TooltipPrimitive.Trigger data-slot="tooltip-trigger" {...props} />
}

function TooltipContent({
  className,
  sideOffset = 0,
  children,
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof TooltipPrimitive.Content>) {
  return (
    <TooltipPrimitive.Portal>
      <TooltipPrimitive.Content
        data-slot="tooltip-content"
        sideOffset={sideOffset}
        className={cn(
          "z-50 inline-flex w-fit max-w-xs origin-(--radix-tooltip-content-transform-origin) items-center gap-1.5 rounded border-2 bg-foreground px-2 py-1 text-xs text-background shadow-md has-data-[slot=kbd]:pr-1.5 data-[side=bottom]:slide-in-from-top-2 data-[side=left]:slide-in-from-right-2 data-[side=right]:slide-in-from-left-2 data-[side=top]:slide-in-from-bottom-2 **:data-[slot=kbd]:relative **:data-[slot=kbd]:isolate **:data-[slot=kbd]:z-50 **:data-[slot=kbd]:rounded-sm data-[state=delayed-open]:animate-in data-[state=delayed-open]:fade-in-0 data-[state=delayed-open]:zoom-in-95 data-open:animate-in data-open:fade-in-0 data-open:zoom-in-95 data-closed:animate-out data-closed:fade-out-0 data-closed:zoom-out-95",
          className
        )}
        {...props}
      >
        {children}
        <TooltipPrimitive.Arrow className="z-50 size-2.5 translate-y-[calc(-50%_-_2px)] rotate-45 rounded-[2px] bg-foreground fill-foreground" />
      </TooltipPrimitive.Content>
    </TooltipPrimitive.Portal>
  )
}

export { Tooltip, TooltipContent, TooltipProvider, TooltipTrigger }

Update the import paths to match your project setup.

Add the TooltipProvider to the root of your app.

app/layout.tsx
import { TooltipProvider } from "@/components/ui/tooltip"
 
export default function RootLayout({ children }) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <body>
        <TooltipProvider>{children}</TooltipProvider>
      </body>
    </html>
  )
}

Usage

import {
  Tooltip,
  TooltipContent,
  TooltipTrigger,
} from "@/components/ui/tooltip"
<Tooltip>
  <TooltipTrigger>Hover</TooltipTrigger>
  <TooltipContent>
    <p>Add to library</p>
  </TooltipContent>
</Tooltip>

Composition

Use the following composition to build a Tooltip:

Tooltip
├── TooltipTrigger
└── TooltipContent

Examples

Side

Use the side prop to change the position of the tooltip.

import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
import {
  Tooltip,

With Keyboard Shortcut

import { SaveIcon } from "lucide-react"

import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"

Disabled Button

Show a tooltip on a disabled button by wrapping it with a span.

import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
import {
  Tooltip,

RTL

To enable RTL support in Neobrutalism.com, see the RTL configuration guide.

"use client"

import {

Accessibility

The tooltip follows the WAI-ARIA Tooltip pattern: the popup renders with role="tooltip" and the primitive points the trigger's aria-describedby at it, so screen readers announce the hint as a description of the control. The tooltip itself never takes focus — put links or buttons in a Popover instead, and keep the trigger understandable without it.

Keyboard interactions:

KeyAction
Tab / Shift + TabMove focus to the trigger — focusing opens the tooltip, leaving closes it
EscapeDismiss the tooltip while focus stays on the trigger
Enter / SpaceActivate the trigger's own action — the tooltip is a description, not a control

API Reference

See the Base UI Tooltip documentation.