
Balloon.css v1.0
Simple tooltips made of pure CSS
Balloon.css v1.0 launched on June 25, 2019 with 140 votes, #173 of 2,757 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
What it does
Balloon.css is an open-source tiny library that lets you add tooltips to a webpage using only HTML, without any JavaScript!
Simple tooltips made of pure CSS!
Balloon.css lets you add tooltips to elements without JavaScript and in just a few lines of CSS. See how easy it is: up , down , left , right , up-left , up-right , down-left or down-right . By default, tooltips will always remain single-line no matter their length. You can change this behavior by using the attribute data-balloon-length with one of the values: small , medium , large or fit . If for some reason you do not want animations in your tooltips, you can use the data-balloon-blunt attribute for that. The attribute data-balloon-visible can be easily added via JavaScript (e.g. .setAttribute() ), enabling you to show tooltips whenever needed. Balloon.css exposes three CSS variables to…from kazzkiq.github.io
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