Angular UI Tooltip overflowing screen

jgabrielfaria picture jgabrielfaria · Jun 25, 2014 · Viewed 7k times · Source

I have a tooltip (http://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/) with a status notification, but when this notifications is to large, it overflows the screen limits. here is a print of what is happening:

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I couldn't find any attribute in angular ui that deals with this problem.

thanks in advance!

Answer

Boris picture Boris · Apr 4, 2015

This solution does not use Angular-UI, just Angular and Bootstrap. Bootstrap is not necessarily required, just simplifies the process a bit:
http://plnkr.co/edit/jLThSTrLUapAG8OLW44m?p=preview

Before I go any further, an alternative to this example would be to add a CSS class with word-wrap and white-space properties to your tooltip class. Using Chrome or Firefox's developer tool, inspect the elements until you locate the classes responsible for setting the tooltip ui; then add these properties to them in your style.css custom CSS document.

Now, for this particular solution, we create a tooltip directive and allow it to take a placement attribute to determine positioning

Angular code, where we destroy the tooltip after we are done to prevent a memory leak:

var app = angular.module('test', []);

angular.module('test').directive('tooltip', function () {
           return {
              restrict: 'A',
              link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
                 $(element)
                         .attr('title', attrs.tooltip)
                         .tooltip({placement: attrs.placement});
                 scope.$on('$destroy', function() {
                    element.tooltip('destroy');
                 });
              }
           }
        }) 

CSS Code, where we have to override some of the Bootstrap defaults:

.tooltip-inner {
   width: auto;
   min-width: 180px;
   background-color: #c0d3d2;
   color: #000000;
   font-weight: 600;
   margin: 0 5px 0 -5px;
   /*margin-left: -5px;*/
}

/* Make tooltips opaque */
.tooltip.in { opacity: 1.8; filter: alpha(opacity=100); }
/*Change tooltip arrow color for bottom placement*/
.tooltip.bottom .tooltip-arrow {
   top: 0;
   left: 50%;
   margin-left: -5px;
   border-bottom-color: #c0d3d2;
   border-width: 0 5px 5px;
}