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The Little Triangle in the Tooltip
- Tooltips are widely used across web development and programming, but there isn't a single specialized way to make them.
- The article dives into the creation of just one step of the recipe, that being the little triangle in the tooltip.
- The first and most common recipe covered in the article is the clever border trick.
- The second recipe covered is the rotated square, where a square is rotated by 45 degrees, resulting in only the corner showing in the form of a triangle.
- The third recipe covered is to trim the square with the clip-path property.
- The clip-path property allows selection of a region of an element to display while clipping the rest. The polygon function is used, with points from the origin, to trim through in a straight line.
- The fourth recipe covered is the border-image property. Using this, we can make a border as wide as the triangle height and have it solid colored.
- We then use the clip-path property to trim the shape of the tooltip, including the little triangle. The result is the final tooltip.
- Each recipe is explained thoroughly with examples provided through CodePen.
- The article concludes with related tricks and similar articles on the topic of tooltips.
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