Getting Started with Blazor Tooltip Component

30 Jan 20244 minutes to read

This section briefly explains about how to include Blazor Tooltip component in your Blazor Server App and Blazor WebAssembly App using Visual Studio.

To get start quickly with the Blazor Tooltip, check on this video or or GitHub sample.

Prerequisites

System requirements for Blazor components

Create a new Blazor App in Visual Studio

You can create a Blazor Server App or Blazor WebAssembly App using Visual Studio via Microsoft Templates or the Syncfusion Blazor Extension.

Install Syncfusion Blazor Popups and Themes NuGet in the App

To add Blazor Tooltip component in the app, open the NuGet package manager in Visual Studio (Tools → NuGet Package Manager → Manage NuGet Packages for Solution), search and install Syncfusion.Blazor.Popups and Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes. Alternatively, you can utilize the following package manager command to achieve the same.

Package Manager
Install-Package Syncfusion.Blazor.Popups -Version 27.2.2
Install-Package Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes -Version 27.2.2

NOTE

Syncfusion Blazor components are available in nuget.org. Refer to NuGet packages topic for available NuGet packages list with component details.

Register Syncfusion Blazor Service

Open ~/_Imports.razor file and import the Syncfusion.Blazor and Syncfusion.Blazor.Popups namespace.

~/_Imports.razor

@using Syncfusion.Blazor
@using Syncfusion.Blazor.Popups

Now, register the Syncfusion Blazor Service in the ~/Program.cs file of your Blazor Server App or Blazor WebAssembly App.

Blazor Server App
Blazor WebAssembly App
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web;
using Syncfusion.Blazor;

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

// Add services to the container.
builder.Services.AddRazorPages();
builder.Services.AddServerSideBlazor();
builder.Services.AddSyncfusionBlazor();

var app = builder.Build();
....
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Hosting;
using Syncfusion.Blazor;

var builder = WebAssemblyHostBuilder.CreateDefault(args);
builder.RootComponents.Add<App>("#app");
builder.RootComponents.Add<HeadOutlet>("head::after");

builder.Services.AddScoped(sp => new HttpClient { BaseAddress = new Uri(builder.HostEnvironment.BaseAddress) });

builder.Services.AddSyncfusionBlazor();
await builder.Build().RunAsync();
....

Add stylesheet and script resources

The theme stylesheet and script can be accessed from NuGet through Static Web Assets. Reference the stylesheet and script in the <head> of the main page as follows:

For .NET 6 Blazor Server app, include it in ~/Pages/_Layout.cshtml file.
For .NET 7 Blazor Server app, include it in the ~/Pages/_Host.cshtml file.
For Blazor WebAssembly app, include it in the ~/index.html file.

<head>
    ....
    <link href="_content/Syncfusion.Blazor.Themes/bootstrap5.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="_content/Syncfusion.Blazor.Core/scripts/syncfusion-blazor.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

NOTE

Check out the Blazor Themes topic to discover various methods (Static Web Assets, CDN, and CRG) for referencing themes in your Blazor application. Also, check out the Adding Script Reference topic to learn different approaches for adding script references in your Blazor application.

Integrate the Syncfusion Blazor Tooltip component with the Syncfusion Blazor Button component in the ~/Pages/Index.razor file.

RAZOR
@using Syncfusion.Blazor.Buttons

<SfTooltip ID="Tooltip" Target="#btn" Content="@Content">
    <SfButton ID="btn" Content="Show Tooltip"></SfButton>
</SfTooltip>

@code
{
    string Content = "Lets go green & Save Earth !!";
}

Press Ctrl+F5 (Windows) or ⌘+F5 (macOS) to launch the application. This will render the Syncfusion Blazor Tooltip component in your default web browser.

NOTE

The Tooltip component in our system uses the HTML element’s id or class name to identify the target for the tooltip. However, when using a GUID as the target ID, it is not able to recognize IDs that start with a digit.