Create & Customize Tooltips and Popovers in React Application using Bootstrap 4

Last updated on October 21, 2020 by Digamber

In this React 16+ tutorial, we are going to ascertain how to build and add Tooltips and Popovers in React.js application using the Bootstrap 4 CSS framework.

The React Bootstrap package implied all the JavaScript-based components for the Bootstrap 4 library, and we are using it for the React Tooltip and Popover example.

Overlays are the fundamental set of components to craft the eye-catching overlays, tooltips and popovers; they depend on third-party plugins such as Popper.js.

A tooltip component is a quintessential way of replacing anchor tag title attribute.

Generically, the Popover is almost similar to tooltips; it is a simple pop-up box that manifests when a user clicks on an element. The only difference is that the Popover contains much more content than a tooltip.

Install New React App

Before we go any further, I want to tell you something straight install the new React application. If already installed, then skip it.

npx create-react-app react-tooltip-popover-example

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Before i jump into the details, please head over to the project root.

cd react-tooltip-popover-example

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Start the application:

npm start

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