With tooltips, you can quickly make your Webflow website more helpful for your visitors. A tooltip is the box you notice when you point or click your mouse over an icon or a word. They give you short answers, hints or explanations, right on the screen, without getting in the way or needing click actions.
Adding tooltips can help make your product guide smarter, your forms easily understandable and your site as a whole more helpful. We will show you how to build simple tooltips in Webflow using what Webflow provides, like interactions and div blocks. You’ll learn how to customize your tooltips with some extra code, should you want to take more control.
1. Add the script to your project
1.Go into your Webflow project.
2.Go to the Settings for Pages if you want tooltips on a single page or use the Site Settings for a tooltip on every page.
3.Move down to where the Before is highlighted.
4.Paste this script below:
<script>
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
const tooltips = document.querySelectorAll("[data-tooltip]");
tooltips.forEach((el) => {
const tooltipText = el.getAttribute("data-tooltip");
const tooltip = document.createElement("div");
tooltip.className = "custom-tooltip";
tooltip.innerText = tooltipText;
document.body.appendChild(tooltip);
el.addEventListener("mouseenter", () => {
tooltip.style.display = "block";
const rect = el.getBoundingClientRect();
tooltip.style.left = rect.left + window.scrollX + "px";
tooltip.style.top = rect.top + window.scrollY - 30 + "px";
});
el.addEventListener("mouseleave", () => {
tooltip.style.display = "none";
});
});
});
</script>
2. Add tooltip attributes
Once the script is finished, add what will make the tooltips appear for users. You can achieve this by inserting a custom attribute into any element you wish to have a tooltip near.
Steps:
1.Pick the element you want the tooltip to appear in Webflow, like text, an icon, a button or an image.
2.On the Element Settings panel (accessible with D shortcut), find the section called Custom Attributes.
3.Go to Add Custom Attribute on the menu.
4.Enter this information:
- Name: data-tooltip
- The task here is to insert the text you’d like to show. A tip such as this is useful.
3. Publish & Test
After installing the script and configuring tooltip attributes, you can watch your tooltips appear.
Steps:
1.At the top right of Webflow, press the Publish button to make your site public.
2.Pick where you want your site to be visible online: the staging domain or your own domain.
3.When finished, check the live site in your web browser.
Hover over any part of the interface that has data-tooltip set in its HTML. Once you type, you will notice a small blue tooltip above the selected element.
When things aren’t going well:
- Ensure that the script has been added to the Before </body> part of your code.
- All your elements should have the data-tooltip attribute and a value.
- Refresh the website on your browser or use incognito mode so you don’t get cache issues.
Conclusion
By including tooltips in Webflow, you give advice or instructions without disrupting your design. You can quickly make tooltips with a little script and a basic custom attribute, making links on your site easier for anyone to use. Using tooltips, you can clearly label items, guide users through forms and explain additional steps on any modern website.
Having seen the tooltip function, consider making it in line with your brand theme and play around with further features whenever you like.
FAQ'S
How To Add Simple Tooltips In Webflow
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