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24 alternatives to Balloon.css v1.0

Simple tooltips made of pure CSS

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Balloon.css v1.0 launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Balloon.css▲7
Simple tooltips made of pure CSS
2016 · kazzkiq.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hint.css v2.0 – Pure CSS tooltip library▲253
2016 · kushagragour.in · its alternatives →
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Hint.css 2.0▲234
A pure CSS tooltip library for your lovely websites.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Open source balloon simulation with Three.js▲307
2019 · alexanderperrin.com.au · its alternatives →
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Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer▲501
A drop-in collection of CSS styles to make simple websites just a little nicer - kognise/water.css
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Layer CSS▲152
Lightweight CSS framework to build your own fluid layouts
2015 · layers-css.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Balloon▲369
A drop box for your Dropbox
2015 · balloon.io · its alternatives →
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RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page▲696
A small JavaScript library to create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page
2020 · roughnotation.com · its alternatives →
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CSS Wand▲330
Easy copy-paste beautiful CSS animations
2019 · csswand.dev · its alternatives →
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Picnic.css, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative▲247
I've tried to make it as light as possible. It's only tested with Firefox and Chrome, however I intend to test it in IE down to 9. What would you change? What would you add? Any feedback or pull request is greatly welcome! MIT Licensed
2014 · picnicss.com · its alternatives →
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Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI▲819
CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI.
2025 · cs16.samke.me · its alternatives →
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I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator▲262
CSS Grid Generator - a user-friendly tool designed for web developers to effortlessly create customizable CSS grids for seamless web development.
2024 · cssgridgenerator.io · its alternatives →
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Picnic CSS▲131
A beautiful CSS library to kickstart your projects
2016 · picnicss.com · its alternatives →
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Chartss.css – accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support▲265
2020 · rbitr.github.io · its alternatives →
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Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns▲332
CSS only library to fill empty background with beautiful patterns. - bansal/pattern.css
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bounce.js – A tool for generating CSS3 animations▲172
2014 · bouncejs.com · its alternatives →
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Bolt.css – Another classless CSS library▲134
Bolt.css is a classless css library
2022 · boltcss.com · its alternatives →
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A simple hand drawn HTML/CSS theme▲188
A simple hand drawn HTML/CSS theme.
2021 · chr15m.github.io · its alternatives →
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CSS-Mint▲118
Lightweight and simple to use UI Kit.
2016 · arunmichaeldsouza.github.io · its alternatives →
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Tailwind CSS▲420
A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development
2017 · tailwindcss.com · its alternatives →
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Pattern.css▲197
CSS library to fill empty background with beautiful patterns
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Littlebox, a pure CSS icon library – worth continuing?▲192
2015 · littlebox.cabmaddux.com · its alternatives →
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Cooltipz.css▲6
A modern, customisable, accessible pure CSS tooltip library.
2020 · cooltipz.jackdomleo.dev · its alternatives →
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A Single Div▲177
A CSS drawing project
2016 · a.singlediv.com · its alternatives →

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