Styling

How to customize tooltip styles in ReactTooltip styles.

The tooltip arrow inherits its background color from the tooltip (its parent).

Inline Styling

You can add styles to the tooltip with inline styling.

import { Tooltip } from 'react-tooltip'

<a
  data-tooltip-id="my-tooltip-inline"
  data-tooltip-content="Hello world!"
>
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</a>
<Tooltip
  id="my-tooltip-inline"
  style={{ backgroundColor: "rgb(0, 255, 30)", color: "#222" }}
/>

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Classes

You don't need to use !important to override the styles, take advantage of CSS Specificity instead (MDN Docs | W3c Docs).

Using CSS Specificity you can add a class with more specificity than the default used in tooltip so you can override or add new rules to the component style.

import { Tooltip } from 'react-tooltip'

<style>
.example {
  color: #222;
  background-color: rgb(0, 247, 255);
}
</style>

<div className="example-container">
  <a
    data-tooltip-id="my-tooltip-styles"
    data-tooltip-content="Hello world!"
  >
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  </a>
  <Tooltip id="my-tooltip-styles" className="example" />
</div>

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Explanation

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Please note that Core styles are different from Base styles, for more information, please check the Disabling ReactTooltip CSS section.

Base styles

In this example, we are adding an extra level to the CSS classes. The following are the default base styles for the tooltip:

.tooltip {
  padding: 8px 16px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  font-size: 90%;
  width: max-content;
}

.arrow {
  width: 8px;
  height: 8px;
}

[class*='react-tooltip__place-top'] > .arrow {
  transform: rotate(45deg);
}

[class*='react-tooltip__place-right'] > .arrow {
  transform: rotate(135deg);
}

[class*='react-tooltip__place-bottom'] > .arrow {
  transform: rotate(225deg);
}

[class*='react-tooltip__place-left'] > .arrow {
  transform: rotate(315deg);
}

/** Types variant **/
.dark {
  background: var(--rt-color-dark);
  color: var(--rt-color-white);
}

.light {
  background-color: var(--rt-color-white);
  color: var(--rt-color-dark);
}

.success {
  background-color: var(--rt-color-success);
  color: var(--rt-color-white);
}

.warning {
  background-color: var(--rt-color-warning);
  color: var(--rt-color-white);
}

.error {
  background-color: var(--rt-color-error);
  color: var(--rt-color-white);
}

.info {
  background-color: var(--rt-color-info);
  color: var(--rt-color-white);
}

Core styles

And the following are the core styles for the tooltip:

.tooltip {
  visibility: hidden;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  pointer-events: none;
  opacity: 0;
  transition: opacity 0.3s ease-out;
  will-change: opacity, visibility;
}

.fixed {
  position: fixed;
}

.arrow {
  position: absolute;
  background: inherit;
}

.noArrow {
  display: none;
}

.clickable {
  pointer-events: auto;
}

.show {
  visibility: visible;
  opacity: var(--rt-opacity);
}

/** end - core styles **/

If we only add new classes like below, it will not work because it has the same level of specificity as the default dark variant.

.example {
  color: #222;
  background-color: rgb(0, 247, 255);
}

/** Add next line only if you want to have a tooltip arrow with a different background color from the tooltip **/
.example .example-arrow {
  background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);
}

To make this work as expected, we need to add another level of specificity:

.some-class-or-rule .example {
  color: #222;
  background-color: rgb(0, 247, 255);
}

/** Add next line only if you want to have a tooltip arrow with a different background color from the tooltip **/
.some-class-or-rule .example .example-arrow {
  background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);
}

Changing colors

Orange

import { Tooltip } from 'react-tooltip'

<style>
.example-container .example-orange {
  color: #222;
  background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);
}
</style>

<div className="example-container">
  <a data-tooltip-id="my-tooltip-orange" data-tooltip-content="Hello world!">
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  </a>
  <Tooltip id="my-tooltip-orange" className="example-orange" />
</div>

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Pink

import { Tooltip } from 'react-tooltip'

<style>
.example-container .example-pink {
  color: #fff;
  background-color: rgb(255, 0, 255);
}
</style>

<div className="example-container">
  <a data-tooltip-id="my-tooltip-pink" data-tooltip-content="Hello world!">
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  </a>
  <Tooltip id="my-tooltip-pink" className="example-pink" />
</div>

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import { Tooltip } from 'react-tooltip'

<style>
.example-container .example-diff-arrow {
  color: #fff;
  background-color: rgb(55, 55, 55);
}

.example-container .example-diff-arrow .example-arrow {
  background-color: rgb(222, 34, 72);
}
</style>

<div className="example-container">
  <a data-tooltip-id="my-tooltip-diff" data-tooltip-content="Hello world!">
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  </a>
  <Tooltip id="my-tooltip-diff" className="example-diff-arrow" classNameArrow="example-arrow" />
</div>

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Changing the border radius

Removing radius

import { Tooltip } from 'react-tooltip'

<style>
.example-container .example-no-radius {
  border-radius: 0;
}
</style>

<div className="example-container">
  <a data-tooltip-id="my-tooltip-no-radius" data-tooltip-content="Hello world!">
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  </a>
  <Tooltip id="my-tooltip-no-radius" className="example-no-radius" />
</div>

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Rounded

import { Tooltip } from 'react-tooltip'

<style>
.example-container .example-rounded {
  border-radius: 50%;
}
</style>

<div className="example-container">
  <a data-tooltip-id="my-tooltip-rounded" data-tooltip-content="Hello world!">
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  </a>
  <Tooltip id="my-tooltip-rounded" className="example-rounded" />
</div>

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Changing the padding

Removing padding

import { Tooltip } from 'react-tooltip'

<style>
.example-container .example-no-padding {
  padding: 0;
}
</style>

<div className="example-container">
  <a data-tooltip-id="my-tooltip-no-padding" data-tooltip-content="Hello world!">
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  </a>
  <Tooltip id="my-tooltip-no-padding" className="example-no-padding" />
</div>

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Adding more padding

import { Tooltip } from 'react-tooltip'

<style>
.example-container .example-padding {
  padding: 48px;
}
</style>

<div className="example-container">
  <a data-tooltip-id="my-tooltip-padding" data-tooltip-content="Hello world!">
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  </a>
  <Tooltip id="my-tooltip-padding" className="example-padding" />
</div>

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In summary, if you do it correctly you can use CSS specificity instead of !important.

Disabling ReactTooltip CSS

ReactTooltip works seamlessly by automatically injecting CSS into your application. To disable this functionality, use the tooltip prop disableStyleInjection. Details on how it works:

Set to true: what we call "base" styles will be disabled. Useful if you wish to style your tooltip from scratch.
Set to 'core': both the "base" and the "core" styles will be disabled. This means the tooltip will not work properly without adding specific CSS attributes to it.

In both cases, you can add import 'react-tooltip/dist/react-tooltip.css' to your project to get the tooltip working again, or add your own custom CSS.

caution

Do not set disableStyleInjection dynamically. Changing its value requires a page refresh, so that will not work.

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Check out more details about the base and core styles.

Environment variables

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This has been deprecated. Use disableStyleInjection instead.

You can prevent ReactTooltip from injecting styles into the page by using environment variables.

name	type	required	default	values	description
`REACT_TOOLTIP_DISABLE_CORE_STYLES`	`boolean`	no	`false`	`true` `false`	Environment variable to disable core styles from being injected into the page by ReactTooltip. We strongly recommend to keep the core styles being injected into the project unless you know what you are doing.
`REACT_TOOLTIP_DISABLE_BASE_STYLES`	`boolean`	no	`false`	`true` `false`	Environment variable to disable base styles from being injected into the page by ReactTooltip. Those styles are just visual styles like colors, padding, etc... And can be disabled if you want to write your tooltip styles.

`removeStyle()` function

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This has been deprecated. Use disableStyleInjection instead.

You can also use the removeStyle() function to remove injected styles from the page. It accepts the following parameters:

name	type	required	default	values	description
type	string	no	`base`	`base` `core`	If `core` is defined, the core styles will be removed from the page, if nothing is defined, `base` styles will be removed as default value

import { removeStyle } from 'react-tooltip'

removeStyle() // removes the injected base style of ReactTooltip
removeStyle({ type: 'core' }) // removes the injected core style of ReactTooltip - this can affect the basic functionality of ReactTooltip

Styling

Inline Styling​

Classes​

Explanation​

Base styles​

Core styles​

Changing colors​

Orange​

Pink​

Tooltip Arrow with a different color from Tooltip​

Changing the border radius​

Removing radius​

Rounded​

Changing the padding​

Removing padding​

Adding more padding​

Disabling ReactTooltip CSS​

Environment variables​

removeStyle() function​

Inline Styling

Classes

Explanation

Base styles

Core styles

Changing colors

Orange

Pink

Tooltip Arrow with a different color from Tooltip

Changing the border radius

Removing radius

Rounded

Changing the padding

Removing padding

Adding more padding

Disabling ReactTooltip CSS

Environment variables

`removeStyle()` function