I am using the tooltips from the twitter bootstrap on a div on a webpage. The tooltip is initialized, but on the first hover it is in the wrong position; however, on the subsequent hovers the tooltip is in the correct position.
I think the problem is occurring because the div that the tooltip is attached to is absolutely positioned.
Here is the div tag in my html:
<div class="btn-group" id="sample-menu" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="left" title="Tooltip on left">
This is how the tooltip is displayed on the first hover:
And here is how it is displayed on every hover after that:
(sizes are not changing just the screenshot crop size)
The styles applied to the div are:
#sample-menu {
position: absolute;
top: 95px;
right: 608px;
}
I could probably position the div differently to get this to work, I am just wondering why the tooltip seems to work perfectly on the absolutely positioned div, but only after the first hover.
** I added a few more tooltips on divs that aren't absolutely positioned and I have the same problem (first appearance of the tooltip is removed from my element, and then after the first appearance it is correct). I have an svg on the page with elements that are being added and sized with javascript (d3). It seems like I need to call something to reposition the tooltips after all page elements are added/sized, however, none of the Bootstrap Tooltip or Tether repositioning solutions have worked for me.
You can also specify other containers (not only
'body'
) in tooltip config.I had project with HTML like this:
and have issues with tooltip positioning calculation, using this JS:
As I understood, issue was caused by
margin: 0
style ofbody
element.Trying to fix this problem without changing styles of
body
element and default markup, I've used other container, like this:and all worked perfectly without any changes.
From bootstrap documentation:
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/components/tooltips/#options
If you'll check bootstrap's tooltip.js, you'll see, that if you set
container
value as a string, it'll try to find element with given selector in DOM (see_proto._getContainer() method
)Here is a codepen of the original problem
I had made the position of the body 'relative' so that my child elements could be positioned absolutely in the way I wanted, and I also had set the the body's margin to '0 auto' to center the content. These styles interfered with the tooltip container option solution that Eric mentioned in his answer.
It was bad practice to have that styling applied to the body in the first place. Here is a codepen that solves this problem and still gives me the appearance and behavior I want without the tooltip issues. I added a container around the content to apply the styles, and then the tooltip "container: 'body' " solution that Eric G suggested worked.
The below has worked for me in the past for tool tips involving absolute positioning:
I just trigger this script after everything is done rendering on the page and everything is set fine. Also in areas where there is an update to the tool tip I have to run this again.