15 Best CSS Tooltip Examples

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Let’s first understand why we use a tooltip: 

Tooltips are particularly helpful for highlighting changes that are simple to overlook, providing value right away, and then vanishing. Part of what makes Tooltips so worthwhile is that they are contextual and specific — they appear in the product itself. They are linked to individual features, allowing you to educate users throughout the process of discovering features.

Now we will see the 15 Best CSS Tooltip Examples for understanding this concept more clearly.

1. Emerging Tooltip

Code by-	Mikael Ainalem
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

Emerging tooltip popup demo. A demo using a couple of different CSS techniques. SVG line animation, Multiple filters: drop-shadow, Material UI easing, …

2. Fancy & Animated Tooltip (CSS Only)

Code by-	Reinhard Schnetzinger
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	Yes
Responsive	Yes

Simply a CSS tooltip with a shiny/modern opening animation.

Easy to use: Only the custom attribute »data-tooltip« has to be added to the respective element.

Elements that can’t contain other elements, such as »input«, can’t use the tooltip. A simple solution would be to wrap the element in a div and then attach the tooltip to the div.

3. ToolTip [Laser Line Effect]

Code by-	Raj
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

Pure CSS laser line tooltip.

4. Tooltip

Code by-	Hixann
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

CSS tooltip with fade-in animation.

5. Tooltip using just CSS + First letter CSS propriety

Code by-	Leandro Fialho
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

Simple tooltip with HTML and CSS.

Advanced Multi-Step Form Just in 2 Minutes Using HTML, CSS, JS

6. CSS ToolTip Smooth animation

Code by-	Omar Dsooky
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

Omar Dsoky created ‘ CSS ToolTip ‘ with smooth animation

7. Tooltiper

Code by-	TOMAZKI
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

This is a tooltip. It works with the data attributes. Just wrap your element in any HTML element width tooltip class and add your content inside a data-tooltip attribute.

8. Pure-CSS Tooltips

Code by-	Pure-CSS.com
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

Classic tooltips are handled by HTML and CSS alone. Using data- attribute to store our tip message and pseudo-elements to display that message.

9. Simple Tooltips CSS3

Code by-	Firdaus Sabain
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

Very simple tooltips using CSS3 component.

10. Tooltipster is nice

Code by-	Ms Moneypenny
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS, JS
External links\ Dependencies	Yes
Responsive	Yes

Creating a tooltip

Responsive Dropdown Menu using HTML, CSS & JS

11. CSS Tooltip Magic

Code by-	Envato Tuts+
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

showing directions by tooltip

12. CSS Tooltips

Code by-	Ian Farb
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

This code shows tooltips in an innovative way.

13. Animated CSS Tooltips

Code by-	Runnabro
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

Animated tooltips by pure CSS.

14. CSS Tooltips

Code by-	Kyle Phillips
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

Simple social navigation with CSS-only tooltip descriptions

Portfolio Website Using HTML,CSS,Bootstrap, and JavaScript

15. Tooltips Over SVG Social Icons

Code by-	Maciej Leszczyński
Demo and Download	Click here for the code
Language used	HTML, CSS
External links\ Dependencies	No
Responsive	Yes

This code shows tooltips Over SVG Social Icons

So Learners that’s all. We have included 15 Best CSS Tooltip Examples in this article. I hope you enjoyed reading this. Tell your other developers about this. We would love your opinions and suggestions in the comments section below.

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Written by: Aditi Tiwari