# kazzkiq/balloon.css

Simple tooltips made of pure CSS

Repository: https://github.com/kazzkiq/balloon.css
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ballooncss
Homepage: https://kazzkiq.github.io/balloon.css/
Language: CSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: tooltip, css, sass, less, html
Last push: 2023-07-08T13:19:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3837, "days_push": 1152, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5008, forks 439 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:04.588397+00:00)

## What it is
Balloon.css is a lightweight (~1.1kb) pure-CSS library for adding tooltips to HTML elements without any JavaScript. Tooltips are configured via data attributes for positioning, length, visibility, and animation control.

## Use cases
- add tooltips to buttons without javascript
- pure css tooltip library
- position tooltips up down left right
- show tooltip programmatically via css attribute
- customize tooltip styling with css variables
- accessible tooltips using aria-label

## When to choose
- you want tooltips with zero JavaScript dependency
- you need a tiny, lightweight tooltip solution
- your project already uses CSS/SASS and simple data-attribute configuration suffices

## When to avoid
- you need rich interactive tooltip content like HTML, links, or dynamic data
- you need tooltips on touch devices with complex show/hide logic
- you need features like delays, follow-cursor, or framework integration

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, css-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: tooltips, pure-css, no-javascript, sass, less, accessibility

## Member repositories
- kazzkiq/balloon.css (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.588397+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:17:33.980538+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kazzkiq/balloon.css (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.588397+00:00, sha 48e34f9171cf)
  - homepage: https://kazzkiq.github.io/balloon.css/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:23.506012+00:00, sha 75656ecc55f3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.