Standard Overlays & Menus
Tooltip
Hover and focus-triggered hint for icon buttons and truncated labels that waits a beat before appearing, repositions itself away from viewport edges, and is reachable and dismissible from the keyboard — unlike the native `title` attribute it replaces.
$ velocityx add standard-tooltip
Built for react.
Needs react already installed
as a peer dependency.
An Astro-only project needs @astrojs/react wired up first — this won't run on its own in plain Astro.
Needs a licence key —
subscribe here, then
velocityx loginonce.
Props
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| children | undocumented | Yes | ||
| label | undocumented | Yes | ||
| placement | string | No | 'top' | |
| openDelay | undocumented | No | OPEN_DELAY_MS |
4 fields in this table have an undocumented type — see source for the exact shape.
File this creates
The CLI writes this path into your project, relative to its root — nothing else moves.
components/velocity/standard-tooltip/Tooltip.jsxUsing the Tooltip component
Install it with velocityx add standard-tooltip.
The CLI writes the source straight into your project — no runtime dependency, no registry
lock-in, and it themes itself from the same primary-*/accent-* scale as the rest of the library.
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