# caged/d3-tip

d3 tooltips

Repository: https://github.com/caged/d3-tip
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/d3-tip
Homepage: http://labratrevenge.com/d3-tip
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: tooltips, d3, datavis
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-02-16T23:36:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5352, "days_push": 2390, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1209, forks 339 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:59.936815+00:00)

## What it is
A small JavaScript plugin that adds tooltips to D3.js SVG visualizations. It provides a simple show/hide API that hooks into D3 mouse events.

## Use cases
- add tooltips to d3 charts
- show hover labels on svg elements
- display data values on mouseover in d3 visualizations
- style custom tooltips for d3.js plots

## When to choose
- you are building D3.js visualizations and need lightweight tooltips
- you want a tiny (~2kb gzipped) tooltip plugin with a simple API

## When to avoid
- you are not using D3.js
- you need a maintained library with recent updates - the latest release is from 2020

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, data-visualization
- domain: data-visualization, frontend, web-development
- platform: browser
- tags: d3, tooltips, svg, datavis, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- caged/d3-tip (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.936815+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 2026-08-30T06:18:34.554552+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/caged/d3-tip (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.936815+00:00, sha ef94d6523e31)
  - homepage: http://labratrevenge.com/d3-tip (fetched 2026-08-29T12:26:30.635554+00:00, sha 7c45eb9956fe)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/d3-tip (fetched 2026-08-29T12:26:30.638270+00:00, sha c05cb8e0a7ce)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.