Custom Tooltip (plugin)

index

• Column Definition - Custom Tooltip
• Grid Options - Custom Tooltip
• Alignment
• Tooltip Type
  • on Cell with formatter
  • on Cell Async Tooltip (Async API call from Promise/Observable)
  • on Column Header (title) with headerFormatter
  • on Column Header row (filter) with headerRowFormatter
  • with regular [title] attribute
  • tooltip text length
• How to delay the opening of a tooltip?
  • delay a tooltip with Formatter
  • delay a Regular Tooltip
• customTooltip options
  • too many to list, consult the CustomTooltipOption interface for all possible options
• UI Sample

Description

A plugin to add Custom Tooltip when hovering a cell, it subscribes to the cell onMouseEnter and onMouseLeave events. The customTooltip is defined in the Column Definition OR Grid Options (the first found will have priority over the second) To specify a tooltip when hovering a cell

NOTE: this is an opt-in plugin, you must import the necessary plugin from @slickgrid-universal/custom-tooltip-plugin and instantiate it in your grid options via registerExternalResources, see multiple examples below.

Demo

Demo Page / Demo Component

via Column Definition

You can set or change option of an individual column definition custom tooltip.

import { SlickCustomTooltip } from '@slickgrid-universal/custom-tooltip-plugin';

initializeGrid() {
  this.columnDefinitions = [{
      id: "title", name: "Title", field: "title", formatter: titleFormatter,
      customTooltip: {
        formatter: tooltipTaskFormatter,
        // ...
      }
  }];

  // make sure to register the plugin in your grid options
  this.gridOptions = {
    registerExternalResources: [new SlickCustomTooltip()],
  };
}

via Grid Options

You can set certain options for the entire grid, for example if you set exportWithFormatter it will evaluate the Formatter (when exist) output to export each cell. The Grid Menu also has the "Export to Excel" enabled by default.

import { SlickCustomTooltip } from '@slickgrid-universal/custom-tooltip-plugin';

initializeGrid() {
  this.gridOptions = {
    registerExternalResources: [new SlickCustomTooltip()],
    customTooltip: {
      formatter: tooltipTaskFormatter,
      
      // optionally skip tooltip on some of the column(s) (like 1st column when using row selection)
      usabilityOverride: (args) => (args.cell !== 0 && args?.column?.id !== 'action'), // disable on 1st and also "action" column
    },
  };
}

Alignment

The default alignment is "auto" (which will align to the left by default or on the right when there's not enough room). You can change the alignment on any of the cell (or all of them via grid option) by simply providing a value to the position.

The available position are: 'auto' | 'top' | 'bottom' | 'left-align' | 'right-align' | 'center' (note that "center" was only added recently)

// define your custom tooltip in a Column Definition OR Grid Options
customTooltip: {
  position: 'left-align'
},

Tooltip Types

Cell Custom Tooltip with formatter

You can create a Custom Tooltip which will show up when hovering a cell by simply providing a formatter via a Column Definition (per column) OR via Grid Options (all columns of the grid), the formatter is the same structure as a regular formatter and accepts html string.

// define your custom tooltip in a Column Definition OR Grid Options
customTooltip: {
  formatter: this.tooltipFormatter,
},

here's a simple formatter (you can see the result in the UI Sample gif below)

tooltipFormatter(row, cell, value, column, dataContext, grid) {
    const tooltipTitle = 'Custom Tooltip';
    const effortDrivenHtml = Formatters.checkmarkMaterial(row, cell, dataContext.effortDriven, column, dataContext, grid);

    return `<div class="header-tooltip-title">${tooltipTitle}</div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Id:</div> <div>${dataContext.id}</div></div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Title:</div> <div>${dataContext.title}</div></div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Effort Driven:</div> <div>${effortDrivenHtml}</div></div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Completion:</div> <div>${dataContext.percentComplete}</div></div>`;
}

Cell Async Custom Tooltip with formatter and asyncPostFormatter (Async API call)

You can create an Async Custom Tooltip which is a delayed tooltip (for example when you call an API to fetch some info), will show up when hovering a cell it will require a bit more setup. The formatter will be use to show any form of "loading..." and your final tooltip will be shown via the asyncPostFormatter both formatters use the same structure as a regular formatter and accepts html string. It will also require you to provide an asyncProcess of your API call (it could be a Promise or Observable), it also provides the same arguments as a regular formatter.

// define your custom tooltip in a Column Definition OR Grid Options
customTooltip: {
  // 1- loading formatter
  formatter: () => `loading...</div>`,

  // 2- post process formatter
  asyncProcess: (row, cell, val, column, dataContext) => fetch(`/user/${dataContext.id}`), // could be a Promise/Observable
  asyncPostFormatter: this.userFullDetailAsyncFormatter,
},

here's the final post process async formatter

userFullDetailAsyncFormatter(row, cell, value, column, dataContext, grid) {
    const tooltipTitle = 'User Detail - Async Tooltip';
    return `<div class="header-tooltip-title">${tooltipTitle}</div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Id:</div> <div>${dataContext.id}</div></div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>First Name:</div> <div>${dataContext.firstName}</div></div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Last Name:</div> <div>${dataContext.lastName}</div></div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Age:</div> <div>${dataContext.age}</div></div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Gender:</div> <div>${dataContext.gender}</div></div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Title:</div> <div>${dataContext.title}</div></div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Seniority:</div> <div>${dataContext.seniority}</div></div>`;
}

Column Header Custom Tooltip with headerFormatter

You can create a Custom Tooltip which will show up when hovering a column header (title) by simply providing a headerFormatter via a Column Definition (per column) OR via Grid Options (all columns of the grid), the formatter is the same structure as a regular formatter and accepts html string.

// define your custom tooltip in a Column Definition OR Grid Options
customTooltip: {
  headerFormatter: this.headerFormatter,
},

here's a simple formatter

headerFormatter(row, cell, value, column) {
    const tooltipTitle = 'Custom Tooltip - Header';
    return `<div class="header-tooltip-title">${tooltipTitle}</div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Column:</div> <div>${column.name}</div></div>`;
}

Column Header Custom Tooltip with headerRowFormatter

You can create a Custom Tooltip which will show up when hovering a column header (title) by simply providing a headerRowFormatter via a Column Definition (per column) OR via Grid Options (all columns of the grid), the formatter is the same structure as a regular formatter and accepts html string.

// define your custom tooltip in a Column Definition OR Grid Options
customTooltip: {
  headerRowFormatter: this.headerRowFormatter,
},

here's a simple formatter

headerRowFormatter(row, cell, value, column) {
    const tooltipTitle = 'Custom Tooltip - Header Row (filter)';
    return `<div class="headerrow-tooltip-title">${tooltipTitle}</div>
    <div class="tooltip-2cols-row"><div>Column:</div> <div>${column.field}</div></div>`;
  }

Regular Tooltip with a [title] attribute

You can create a regular tooltip simply by enabling useRegularTooltip: true, it will parse the regular cell formatter in search for a title="..." attribute (it won't work without a cell formatter, unless the cell text content is larger than the cell width when ellipsis shows up "some text..." and that will automatically create a tooltip, that could however be disabled if you wish).

This feature is very useful so you probably want to enable this flag globally, but you could also still choose to add only via a Column Definition (per column) OR via Grid Options (all columns of the grid).

NOTE: regular tooltip, as opposed to other type of custom tooltip, will be rendered as plain text. You could however change that by enabling this flag renderRegularTooltipAsHtml: true

// define your custom tooltip in a Column Definition OR Grid Options
customTooltip: {
  useRegularTooltip: true, // a regular tooltip will search for a "title" attribute in the cell formatter (it won't work without a cell formatter)

  // if you wish to disable auto-tooltip creation when ellipsis (...) shows up, can use this flag
  // useRegularTooltipFromFormatterOnly: true,
},

Regular tooltip max length

By default the custom tooltip text will be limited, and potentially truncated, to 650 characters in order to keep the tooltip with a size that is not too large. You could change the grid option setting with this

this.gridOptions = {
  customTooltip: {
    tooltipTextMaxLength: 650,
  },
}

How to delay the opening of a tooltip?

delay a Tooltip with Formatter

There are no built-in option to delay a custom tooltip because it would add too much code complexity to the codebase, however you can simply do that by taking advantage of the Async Custom Tooltip. The only thing you might want to do though is to have the first custom tooltip formatter to return an empty string (so it won't show a loading tooltip) and then use the asyncPostFormatter for the tooltip (note that it will not read the cell formatter, if you have requirement for that then simply combined formatter into an external formatter function, see 2nd examples below).

// define your custom tooltip in a Column Definition OR Grid Options
customTooltip: {
  // 1- loading formatter
  formatter: () => ``, // return empty so it won't show any pre-tooltip

  // 2- delay the opening by a simple Promise and `setTimeout`
  asyncProcess: () => new Promise(resolve => {
    setTimeout(() => resolve({}), 500); // delayed by half a second
  }),
  asyncPostFormatter: this.userFullDetailAsyncFormatter,
},

delay a Regular Tooltip

It is possible to also delay a regular tooltip (when using useRegularTooltip) even when using the optional useRegularTooltipFromFormatterOnly but it requires a bit of code change. For example, let say you want to parse the title from a formatter but delay it, you could do it as shown below but please note that it will read the asyncPostFormatter, not the cell formatter, and so you should probably create an external formatter function to make simpler code.

tooltip text output will be: "show this tooltip title text"

// define your custom tooltip in a Column Definition OR Grid Options
this.columnDefinitions = [{
  id: 'firstName', field: 'firstName', name: 'First Name',
  customTooltip: {
    // 1- loading formatter
    formatter: () => ``, // return empty so it won't show any pre-tooltip

    // 2- delay the opening by a simple Promise and `setTimeout`
    asyncProcess: () => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(() => resolve(null), 500)), // delayed by half a second
    asyncPostFormatter: `<span title="show this tooltip title text">cell value</span>`, // this will be read as tooltip
  },
  formatter: `<span title="another tooltip title text">cell value</span>`, // this won't be read as tooltip
}];

the previous code could be refactored to have only 1 common formatter that is referenced in both cell formatter and tooltip asyncPostFormatter

tooltip text output will be: "show this tooltip title text"

const myFormatter = () => `<span title="show this tooltip title text">cell value</span>`;

// define your custom tooltip in a Column Definition OR Grid Options
this.columnDefinitions = [{
  id: 'firstName', field: 'firstName', name: 'First Name',
  customTooltip: {
    // 1- loading formatter
    formatter: () => ``, // return empty so it won't show any pre-tooltip

    // 2- delay the opening by a simple Promise and `setTimeout`
    asyncProcess: () => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(() => resolve(null), 500)), // delayed by half a second
    asyncPostFormatter: myFormatter
  },
  formatter: myFormatter
}];

UI Sample

The Export to Excel handles all characters quite well, from Latin, to Unicode and even Unicorn emoji, it all works on all browsers (Chrome, Firefox, even IE11, I don't have access to older versions). Here's a demo

auto tooltip on large text, that is when ellipsis (...) shows up on large text

Async Custom Tooltip (API call Promise/Observable)