---
category: Feedback
contributors:
    - arthur322
created: '2019-12-18'
description: Create a tooltip with CSS
keywords: css tooltip
thumbnail: /assets/css-layout/thumbnails/tooltip.png
title: Tooltip
updated: '2021-10-01'
---

## HTML

```html index.html
<div class="tooltip">
    <!-- The tooltip content -->
    <div class="tooltip__content">...</div>

    <!-- The tooltip arrow -->
    <div class="tooltip__arrow"></div>

    <!-- The trigger element -->
    ...
</div>
```

## CSS

```css styles.css
.tooltip {
    /* Used to position the arrow */
    position: relative;
}

/* Show the arrow and content and restore pointer events when hovering the trigger element */
.tooltip:hover .tooltip__arrow,
.tooltip:hover .tooltip__content {
    opacity: 1;
    pointer-events: initial;
}

.tooltip__arrow {
    /* Invisible by default */
    opacity: 0;

    /* To prevent accidental interactions with other elements  */
    pointer-events: none;

    /* Border */
    border: 0.5rem solid transparent;
    border-top-color: #111827;

    /* Position */
    bottom: 100%;
    left: 50%;
    position: absolute;
    transform: translate(-50%, 8px);

    /* Zero size */
    height: 0;
    width: 0;

    /* Displayed on top of other element */
    z-index: 10;
}

.tooltip__content {
    /* Invisible by default */
    opacity: 0;

    /* To prevent accidental interactions with other elements  */
    pointer-events: none;

    /* Background color, must be the same as the border color of arrow */
    background-color: #111827;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;

    /* Position */
    bottom: 100%;
    left: 50%;
    position: absolute;
    transform: translate(-50%, -8px);

    /* Displayed on top of other element */
    z-index: 10;
}
```

<Playground>
```css placeholders.css hidden
.lines {
    padding: 0.25rem 0;
    width: 100%;
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    flex-direction: column;
}
.line {
    background: #d1d5db;
    height: 1px;
    margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
}
.line.line--20 {
    width: 20%;
}
.line.line--40 {
    width: 40%;
}
.line.line--60 {
    width: 60%;
}
.line.line--80 {
    width: 80%;
}
.line.line--100 {
    width: 100%;
}
```

```css styles.css hidden
body {
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
}
.tooltip {
    /* Used to position the arrow */
    position: relative;

    /* Demo */
    width: 8rem;
    height: 2rem;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    background: #d1d5db;
}

/* Show the arrow and content and restore pointer events when hovering the trigger element */
.tooltip:hover .tooltip__arrow,
.tooltip:hover .tooltip__content {
    opacity: 1;
    pointer-events: initial;
}

.tooltip__arrow {
    /* Invisible by default */
    opacity: 1;

    /* To prevent accidental interactions with other elements  */
    pointer-events: none;

    /* Border */
    border: 0.5rem solid transparent;
    border-top-color: #111827;

    /* Position */
    bottom: 100%;
    left: 50%;
    position: absolute;
    transform: translate(-50%, 8px);

    /* Zero size */
    height: 0;
    width: 0;

    /* Displayed on top of other element */
    z-index: 10;
}

.tooltip__content {
    /* Invisible by default */
    opacity: 1;

    /* To prevent accidental interactions with other elements  */
    pointer-events: none;

    /* Background color, must be the same as the border color of arrow */
    background-color: #111827;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;

    /* Position */
    bottom: 100%;
    left: 50%;
    position: absolute;
    transform: translate(-50%, -8px);

    /* Displayed on top of other element */
    z-index: 10;

    /* Demo */
    width: 6rem;
}
```

```html index.html hidden
<div class="tooltip">
    <div class="tooltip__content">
        <div class="lines">
            <div class="line line--80"></div>
            <div class="line line--40"></div>
            <div class="line line--100"></div>
            <div class="line line--60"></div>
            <div class="line line--20"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="tooltip__arrow"></div>
</div>
```
</Playground>