UI - Popover

UI - Popover

About

A popover is a overlay graphic element

  • that shows up (pops) over the actual graphic elements
  • when the user makes an active action on an interactive/control element such as:
  • that allows interaction with its content

It's associated to the interactive element and appears then near it.

An arrow generally points to the interactive/control element.

A tooltip is a sort of popover but it does not:

  • requiert an active interaction (based on the mouse position)
  • allow interaction with its content (the tooltip goes away when the mouse goes away)

Library

With javascript, the popper library helps you create popover.





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