# chinchang/hint.css

A CSS only tooltip library for your lovely websites.

Repository: https://github.com/chinchang/hint.css
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hintcss
Homepage: https://kushagra.dev/lab/hint/
Language: CSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: tooltip-library, purecss, accessibility, simple-api, tooltip, bem, css
Last push: 2024-10-17T14:08:37+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": 4994, "days_push": 685, "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 8433, forks 681 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:21.180645+00:00)

## What it is
Hint.css is a pure CSS tooltip library that creates accessible tooltips using aria-label/data attributes, pseudo elements, and CSS3 transitions with no JavaScript. It ships as a tiny (~1.7KB gzipped) stylesheet with BEM-style modifier classes for positioning, colors, sizes, and effects.

## Use cases
- add tooltips to a website without javascript
- accessible tooltips using aria-label
- lightweight css-only tooltip library
- show hover hints on html elements
- style tooltips with colors sizes and positions
- reduce page weight by replacing js tooltip plugins

## When to choose
- you want tooltips with zero JavaScript dependency
- you need a very small footprint (under 2KB gzipped)
- accessibility via aria-label matters to you
- you want simple class-based usage with no configuration

## When to avoid
- you need rich interactive tooltips with HTML content or dynamic positioning
- you need tooltips on focus for keyboard users with complex behavior
- you need programmatic control like show/hide via API or events

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, css-framework, accessibility
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design, accessibility
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: tooltip, pure-css, no-javascript, bem, aria-label, small-footprint

## Member repositories
- chinchang/hint.css (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:21.180645+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 2026-08-29T17:27:15.228437+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/chinchang/hint.css (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:21.180645+00:00, sha 34d0ef7434c7)
  - homepage: https://kushagra.dev/lab/hint/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:27:04.924317+00:00, sha 0805948b5777)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.