atomiks/floating-ui

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Floating UI is a JavaScript positioning library for anchoring floating elements like tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns next to reference elements while avoiding viewport collisions. It also provides React primitives for building accessible interactions for floating components, and is the successor brand of Popper.js (this repo has moved to floating-ui/floating-ui).

Use cases

• position tooltips next to buttons
• build popover components in React
• create dropdown menus that stay in view
• anchor floating elements without viewport overflow
• position a tooltip relative to the mouse cursor
• build combobox and select menus with accessible interactions
• replace Popper.js with its maintained successor

When to choose

• you need robust anchor positioning with flip/shift/size collision handling
• you want headless primitives to build custom tooltips, popovers, or menus
• you need framework-agnostic positioning or React interaction hooks
• you are starting a new project and were considering Popper.js

When to avoid

• you want pre-built styled components rather than headless primitives
• you need only simple CSS-only tooltips without dynamic positioning
• you rely on the old atomiks/floating-ui repo location, which is archived in favor of floating-ui/floating-ui

Facets

library · maturity active

ui-components frontend-framework middleware web-development frontend accessibility browser cross-platform positioning tooltips popovers dropdowns anchoring collision-detection react headless-ui popper-successor nodejs

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