A tooltip with plain HTML and Tailwind CSS

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hbroadbent · 1d ago

Hey HN, I've been playing around with HTML & CSS only tooltips for a while, and I finally decided to write a bit about them. Hopefully someone here will find them interesting!

At the end of the article, I also touch on the new CSS anchor API, which will simplify things a bit once (if) it becomes more widely supported.

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A tooltip with plain HTML and Tailwind CSS

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