# Tooltip

A React component in [Beamline](https://beamline.io/)'s [Overlays](https://beamline.io/components/overlays) category. Live demo: https://beamline.io/components/tooltip

Short supporting text for a control: opens after a moment on hover and at once on keyboard focus; inside a toolbar group the next one opens instantly.

## Use it for

- Naming icon-only buttons and showing their keyboard shortcut.
- Saying why a control is disabled and how to enable it.

## Not for

- Essential information (put it on the page).
- Anything clickable or long ([popover](https://beamline.io/components/popover)).

## Anatomy

- trigger (your control)
- content
- shortcut

## Variants

- **side**: top, right, bottom, left
- **align**: start, center, end

## States

- closed
- delayed-open (after 500 ms hover)
- instant-open (keyboard focus, or inside a group after another)
- closing

## Keyboard

- Focus opens it at once
- Escape closes it

## Motion

Rises 4px and fades in over --pui-motion-in after a hover delay; fades in only when instant; fades out over --pui-motion-out. Reduced motion: no movement.

## Props

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `content` | `ReactNode` | — |  |
| `shortcut` | `string` | — |  |
| `side / align` | `string` | `"top" / "center"` |  |
| `open / defaultOpen / onOpenChange` | `boolean` | — |  |
| `TooltipGroup delay` | `number` | `500` |  |
| `classNames` | `TooltipClassNames` | — |  |
| `style / ref` | `CSSProperties / native Ref` | — | Root styles; ref targets native popup div. |

## Dependencies

`@radix-ui/react-tooltip`

## Import

```tsx
import { TooltipGroup, Tooltip } from "@/components/tooltip/tooltip";
```

## Get it

Tooltip is part of Beamline: 190 React components and screens your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any MCP client) installs into your app through Beamline's MCP server, as a ready-built package or as plain React source you can change. $49 one payment (regular $200), no subscription, a year of updates, one licence for your whole team. [Get Beamline](https://beamline.io/checkout?pack=complete) · [Connect your agent](https://beamline.io/connect)

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