# Tippy.js

Tooltip, popover, dropdown, and menu library

Repository: https://github.com/atomiks/tippyjs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tippyjs
Homepage: https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: tooltip, popover, menu, combobox, dropdown, popup
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-05-27T19:00:23+00:00
Link (homepage): https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/

## 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": 3441, "days_push": 828, "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 12252, forks 539 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:52.160960+00:00)

## What it is
Tippy.js is a complete tooltip, popover, dropdown, and menu library for the web, powered by Popper. It provides positioning logic and optional styling for floating UI elements with mouse, keyboard, and touch support.

## Use cases
- add tooltips to buttons on a website
- create popovers that float next to elements
- build dropdown menus for web apps
- show contextual help popups on hover or focus
- position floating elements that flip when space runs out
- add accessible tooltips for keyboard and touch users

## When to choose
- you need robust, accessible tooltips or popovers with smart viewport-aware positioning
- you want a framework-agnostic core with an official React wrapper
- you need fine-grained CSS styling and animation control over floating elements

## When to avoid
- you are building a React app and prefer a modern native solution like Floating UI directly
- you need complex modal dialogs or full overlay systems rather than floating elements
- the project requires a library under very active development

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework, animation
- domain: frontend, web-development, web-design
- platform: browser
- tags: tooltip, popover, dropdown, menu, popper, typescript-support, react-wrapper, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- atomiks/tippyjs (main) score 10
- atomiks/tippyjs-react (sdk) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:52.160960+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 2026-08-29T17:14:14.214024+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/atomiks/tippyjs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:52.160960+00:00, sha 424d2540d82f)
  - homepage: https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:12:20.526814+00:00, sha f1b21d4ad2a0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.