DevExtreme Angular - Show and Hide the Tooltip

User Interaction

To specify when the Tooltip should be shown and hidden, set the showEvent and hideEvent options. These options can accept several events at once as well as an object.

HTML
TypeScript
  • <img id="image" src="https://www.devexpress.com/DXR.axd?r=9999_17-FD0Id" />
  • <dx-tooltip
  • target="#image"
  • showEvent="dxhoverstart"
  • hideEvent="dxhoverend">
  • <div *dxTemplate="let data of 'content'">
  • <p>Tooltip content</p>
  • </div>
  • </dx-tooltip>
  • import { DxTooltipModule } from "devextreme-angular";
  • // ...
  • export class AppComponent {
  • // ...
  • }
  • @NgModule({
  • imports: [
  • // ...
  • DxTooltipModule
  • ],
  • // ...
  • })

The Tooltip can also be hidden when a user clicks outside it or presses the Back button on the device. To control this behavior of the Tooltip, use the closeOnBackButton and closeOnOutsideClick options.

HTML
TypeScript
  • <img id="image" src="https://www.devexpress.com/DXR.axd?r=9999_17-FD0Id" />
  • <dx-tooltip
  • target="#image"
  • showEvent="dxhoverstart"
  • hideEvent="dxhoverend"
  • [closeOnBackButton]="false"
  • [closeOnOutsideClick]="false">
  • <div *dxTemplate="let data of 'content'">
  • <p>Tooltip content</p>
  • </div>
  • </dx-tooltip>
  • import { DxTooltipModule } from "devextreme-angular";
  • // ...
  • export class AppComponent {
  • // ...
  • }
  • @NgModule({
  • imports: [
  • // ...
  • DxTooltipModule
  • ],
  • // ...
  • })

API

NOTE
In this article, the Button widget is used to demonstrate how to show and hide the Tooltip. This choice is made for purely demonstrational purposes, and you can do the same operations using another widget following the same guidelines.

To show or hide the Tooltip programmatically, call the show() or hide() method. The same thing can be done using the toggle(showing) method. Pass true or false to this method to show or hide the Tooltip, respectively.

The show() method called without arguments shows the Tooltip for the target specified beforehand. If you need to change the target once, call the show(target) method.

With Angular, AngularJS, or Knockout, use a different technique. Bind the visible property of the Tooltip widget to a component property (in Angular), a scope property (in AngularJS) or an observable variable (in Knockout). After that, change them, and the Tooltip will appear or disappear.

HTML
TypeScript
  • <img id="image" src="https://www.devexpress.com/DXR.axd?r=9999_17-FD0Id" />
  • <dx-tooltip
  • target="#image"
  • [visible]="isTooltipVisible">
  • <div *dxTemplate="let data of 'content'">
  • <p>Tooltip content</p>
  • </div>
  • </dx-tooltip>
  • <dx-button
  • text="Show the Tooltip"
  • (onClick)="isTooltipVisible = true">
  • </dx-button>
  • <dx-button
  • text="Hide the Tooltip"
  • (onClick)="isTooltipVisible = false">
  • </dx-button>
  • import { DxTooltipModule, DxButtonModule } from "devextreme-angular";
  • // ...
  • export class AppComponent {
  • isTooltipVisible: boolean = false;
  • }
  • @NgModule({
  • imports: [
  • // ...
  • DxTooltipModule
  • ],
  • // ...
  • })

Events

To execute certain commands before or after the Tooltip was shown/hidden, handle the showing, shown, hiding or hidden event. If the event handling function is not going to be changed during the lifetime of the widget, assign it to the corresponding onEventName option when you configure the widget.

HTML
TypeScript
  • <dx-tooltip ...
  • (onShowing)="onShowing($event)"
  • (onShown)="onShown($event)"
  • (onHiding)="onHiding($event)"
  • (onHidden)="onHidden($event)">
  • </dx-tooltip>
  • import { DxTooltipModule } from "devextreme-angular";
  • // ...
  • export class AppComponent {
  • onShowing (e) {
  • // Handler of the "showing" event
  • },
  • onShown (e) {
  • // Handler of the "shown" event
  • },
  • onHiding (e) {
  • // Handler of the "hiding" event
  • },
  • onHidden (e) {
  • // Handler of the "hidden" event
  • }
  • }
  • @NgModule({
  • imports: [
  • // ...
  • DxTooltipModule
  • ],
  • // ...
  • })

If you are going to change event handlers at runtime, or if you need to attach several handlers to a single event, subscribe to the events using the on(eventName, eventHandler) method. This approach is more typical of jQuery.

JavaScript
  • var hiddenEventHandler1 = function (e) {
  • // First handler of the "hidden" event
  • };
  •  
  • var hiddenEventHandler2 = function (e) {
  • // Second handler of the "hidden" event
  • };
  •  
  • $("#tooltipContainer").dxTooltip("instance")
  • .on("hidden", hiddenEventHandler1)
  • .on("hidden", hiddenEventHandler2);
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