Svelte Popover - Flowbite

Use the popover component to show detailed information inside a pop-up box relative to the element that is being clicked or hovered based on multiple styles

Get started with the popover component to show any type of content inside a pop-up box when hovering or clicking over a trigger element. There are multiple examples that you can choose from, such as showing more information about a user profile, company profile, password strength, and more.

Make sure that you have the Flowbite JavaScript included in your project to enable the popover interactivity by following the quickstart guide.

Setup #

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover } from 'flowbite-svelte';
</script>

Default popover #

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover, Button } from 'flowbite-svelte';
</script>

<Button id="b1">Default popover</Button>
<Popover class="w-64 text-sm font-light " title="Popover title" triggeredBy="#b1">And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>

User profile #

Use this example to show more information about a user profile when hovering over the trigger component.

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover, Button, Avatar } from 'flowbite-svelte';
</script>

<Button id="b2" class="-mb-2">User profile</Button>
<Popover triggeredBy="#b2" class="w-64 text-sm font-light text-gray-500 bg-white dark:text-gray-400 dark:border-gray-600 dark:bg-gray-800">
  <div class="p-3">
    <div class="flex justify-between items-center mb-2">
      <Avatar href="/" src="/images/profile-picture-1.webp" alt="Jese Leos" />
      <Button size="xs">Follow</Button>
    </div>
    <div class="text-base font-semibold leading-none text-gray-900 dark:text-white">
      <a href="/">Jese Leos</a>
    </div>
    <div class="mb-3 text-sm font-normal">
      <a href="/" class="hover:underline">@jeseleos</a>
    </div>
    <div class="mb-4 text-sm font-light">
      Open-source contributor. Building <a href="/" class="text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 hover:underline"> flowbite.com </a>
      .
    </div>
    <ul class="flex text-sm font-light">
      <li class="mr-2">
        <a href="/" class="hover:underline">
          <span class="font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">799</span>
          <span>Following</span>
        </a>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="/" class="hover:underline">
          <span class="font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">3,758</span>
          <span>Followers</span>
        </a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</Popover>

Company profile #

This example can be used to show more information about a company profile.

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover, Button, Avatar } from 'flowbite-svelte';
  import { Icon } from 'flowbite-svelte-icons';
</script>

<Button class="-mb-4">Company profile</Button>
<Popover class="w-80 text-sm">
  <div class="flex">
    <div class="mr-3 shrink-0">
      <a href="/" class="block p-2 bg-gray-100 rounded-lg dark:bg-gray-700">
        <img class="w-8 h-8 rounded-full" src="/images/flowbite-svelte-icon-logo.svg" alt="Flowbite logo" />
      </a>
    </div>
    <div>
      <p class="mb-1 text-base font-semibold leading-none text-gray-900 dark:text-white">
        <a href="/" class="hover:underline">Flowbite</a>
      </p>
      <p class="mb-3 text-sm font-normal">Tech company</p>
      <p class="mb-4 text-sm font-light">Open-source library of Tailwind CSS components and Figma design system.</p>
      <ul class="text-sm font-light">
        <li class="flex items-center mb-2">
          <Icon name="globe-outline" class="w-3.5 h-3.5 mr-2" />
          <a href="/" class="text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 hover:underline"> https://flowbite.com/ </a>
        </li>
        <li class="flex items-start mb-2">
          <Icon name="heart-solid" class="w-5 h-5 mr-2" />
          <span>4,567,346 people like this including 5 of your friends</span>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <div class="flex mb-3 ml-4">
        <Avatar src="/images/profile-picture-1.webp" stacked />
        <Avatar src="/images/profile-picture-2.webp" stacked />
        <Avatar src="/images/profile-picture-3.webp" stacked />
        <Avatar stacked href="/" class="bg-gray-700 dark:bg-gray-700 text-white hover:bg-gray-600">+3</Avatar>
      </div>
      <div class="flex">
        <Button color="alternative" class="mr-2 w-full">
          <Icon name="thumbs-up-solid" class="mr-2" />
          Like page
        </Button>
        <Button color="alternative">
          <Icon name="dots-horizontal-outline" class="w-3.5 h-3.5" />
        </Button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</Popover>

Image popover #

Use this example to trigger a popover component with detailed information and an image when hovering over a portion of highlighted text inspired by Wikipedia and other large news outlets.

Due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe, Italy has historically been home to myriad peoples and cultures. In addition to the various ancient peoples dispersed throughout what is now modern-day Italy, the most predominant being the Indo-European Italic peoples who gave the peninsula its name, beginning from the classical era, Phoenicians and Carthaginians founded colonies mostly in insular Italy

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover } from 'flowbite-svelte';
  import { Icon } from 'flowbite-svelte-icons';
</script>

<p class="font-light text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">
  Due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe, <a href="/" class="text-primary-600 underline dark:text-primary-500 hover:no-underline" id="popover-image"> Italy </a>
  has historically been home to myriad peoples and cultures. In addition to the various ancient peoples dispersed throughout what is now modern-day Italy, the most predominant being the Indo-European Italic peoples who gave the peninsula its name, beginning from the classical era, Phoenicians and Carthaginians founded colonies mostly in insular Italy
</p>
<Popover triggeredBy="#popover-image" class="w-96 text-sm font-light" defaultClass="">
  <div class="grid grid-cols-5">
    <div class="col-span-3 p-3">
      <div class="space-y-2">
        <h3 class="font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">
          About Italy
          <h3>
            <p class="text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-500">Italy is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, in Southern Europe it is also considered part of Western Europe. A unitary parliamentary republic with Rome as its capital and largest city.</p>
            <a href="/" class="flex items-center font-medium text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 dark:hover:text-primary-600 hover:text-primary-700">
              Read more <Icon name="chevron-right-solid" class="w-2 h-2 ml-1.5 text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500" />
            </a>
          </h3>
        </h3>
      </div>
    </div>
    <img src="/images/italy.png" class="col-span-2 h-full rounded-r-lg" alt="Italy map" />
  </div>
</Popover>

Description popover #

Show helpful information inside a popover when hovering over a question mark button.

This is just some informational text
  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover } from 'flowbite-svelte';
  import { Icon } from 'flowbite-svelte-icons';
</script>

<div class="flex items-center text-sm font-light text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">
  This is just some informational text
  <button id="b3">
    <Icon name="question-circle-solid" class="w-4 h-4 ml-1.5" />
    <span class="sr-only">Show information</span>
  </button>
</div>
<Popover triggeredBy="#b3" class="w-72 text-sm font-light text-gray-500 bg-white dark:bg-gray-800 dark:border-gray-600 dark:text-gray-400" placement="bottom-start">
  <div class="p-3 space-y-2">
    <h3 class="font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Activity growth - Incremental</h3>
    Report helps navigate cumulative growth of community activities. Ideally, the chart should have a growing trend.
    <h3 class="font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Calculation</h3>
    For each date bucket, the all-time volume of activities is calculated. This means that activities in period n contain all activities up to period n.
    <a href="/" class="flex items-center font-medium text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 dark:hover:text-primary-600 hover:text-primary-700">
      Read more <Icon name="chevron-right-outline" class="w-2 h-2 ml-1.5 text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500" />
    </a>
  </div>
</Popover>

Progress popover #

Show a progress bar with details inside a popover when hovering over a settings button.

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover, Button } from 'flowbite-svelte';
  import { Icon } from 'flowbite-svelte-icons';
</script>

<Button id="progress">
  <Icon name="database-solid" class="mr-2 w-4 h-4 text-white dark:text-white" /> Storage status
</Button>
<Popover triggeredBy="#progress" class="text-sm w-64 font-light">
  <div class="space-y-2">
    <h3 class="font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Available storage</h3>
    <p class="text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">
      This server has <span class="font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">30</span>
      of
      <span class="font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">150 GB</span>
      of block storage remaining.
    </p>
    <div class="w-full bg-gray-200 rounded-full h-2.5 mb-4 dark:bg-gray-700">
      <div class="bg-red-600 h-2.5 rounded-full" style="width: 85%" />
    </div>
    <a href="/" class="flex items-center font-medium text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 dark:hover:text-primary-600 hover:text-primary-700">
      Upgrade now <Icon name="chevron-right-outline" class="w-2 h-2 ml-1.5 text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500" />
    </a>
  </div>
</Popover>

Password strength #

Dynamically show the password strength progress when creating a new password positioned relative to the input element.

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover, Label, Input, Checkbox, Button } from 'flowbite-svelte';
  import { Icon } from 'flowbite-svelte-icons';
</script>

<form on:submit|preventDefault class="mb-8">
  <div class="mb-6">
    <Label for="email" class="mb-2">Your email</Label>
    <Input type="email" id="email" placeholder="name@flowbite.com" required="" />
  </div>
  <div class="mb-6">
    <Label for="password" class="mb-2">Your password</Label>
    <Input type="password" id="password" required="" />
  </div>
  <Checkbox class="mb-6">Remember me</Checkbox>
  <Button type="submit">Submit</Button>
</form>
<Popover class="text-sm" triggeredBy="#password" placement="bottom">
  <h3 class="font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Must have at least 6 characters</h3>
  <div class="grid grid-cols-4 gap-2">
    <div class="h-1 bg-orange-300 dark:bg-orange-400" />
    <div class="h-1 bg-orange-300 dark:bg-orange-400" />
    <div class="h-1 bg-gray-200 dark:bg-gray-600" />
    <div class="h-1 bg-gray-200 dark:bg-gray-600" />
  </div>
  <p class="py-2">It’s better to have:</p>
  <ul>
    <li class="flex items-center mb-1">
      <Icon name="check-outline" class="mr-2 w-4 h-4 text-green-400 dark:text-green-500" />
      Upper &amp; lower case letters
    </li>
    <li class="flex items-center mb-1">
      <Icon name="check-outline" class="mr-2 w-4 h-4 text-green-400 dark:text-green-500" />
      A symbol (#$&amp;)
    </li>
    <li class="flex items-center">
      <Icon name="close-outline" class="mr-2 w-4 h-4 text-gray-300 dark:text-gray-400" />A longer password (min. 12 chars.)
    </li>
  </ul>
</Popover>

Placement #

Set the position of the popover component relative to the trigger element by using the placement={top|right|bottom|left} data attribute and its values.

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover, Button } from 'flowbite-svelte';
  let placement;
</script>

<Button id="placement-top" on:mouseenter={() => (placement = 'top')}>Top popover</Button>
<div class="space-x-4">
  <Button id="placement-left" on:mouseenter={() => (placement = 'left')}>Left popover</Button>
  <Button id="placement-right" on:mouseenter={() => (placement = 'right')}>Right popover</Button>
</div>
<Button id="placement-bottom" on:mouseenter={() => (placement = 'bottom')}>Bottom popover</Button>
<Popover triggeredBy="[id^='placement-']" {placement} class="w-64 text-sm font-light " title="Popover left">And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>

Triggering #

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover, Button } from 'flowbite-svelte';
</script>

<Button id="hover">Hover popover</Button>
<Button id="click">Click popover</Button>
<Popover class="w-64 text-sm font-light " title="Popover title" triggeredBy="#hover" trigger="hover">And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>
<Popover class="w-64 text-sm font-light " title="Popover title" triggeredBy="#click" trigger="click">And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>

Offset #

Increase or decrease the default offset by adding the offset attribute where the value is an integer.

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover, Button } from 'flowbite-svelte';
</script>

<Button id="offset">Default popover</Button>
<Popover offset="30" class="w-64 text-sm font-light" title="Popover title" triggeredBy="#offset">And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>

Animation #

Customize the animation of the popover component by using the transition functions from Svelte.

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover, Button } from 'flowbite-svelte';
  import { blur, fade, slide } from 'svelte/transition';
</script>

<Button>Fade popover</Button>
<Popover class="w-64 text-sm font-light" title="Popover title" transition={fade} params={{ duration: 700 }}>And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>
<Button>Blur popover</Button>
<Popover class="w-64 text-sm font-light" title="Popover title" transition={blur} params={{ duration: 500 }}>And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>
<Button>Slide popover</Button>
<Popover class="w-64 text-sm font-light" title="Popover title" transition={slide}>And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>

Disable arrow #

You can also disable the popover arrow by setting arrow attribute to false.

  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover, Button } from 'flowbite-svelte';
</script>

<Button id="arrow">Default popover</Button>
<Popover arrow={false} class="w-64 text-sm font-light" title="Popover title" triggeredBy="#arrow">And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>

External reference #

If you need the popover to be attached to the other element then the tiggering one you can pass a CSS query to reference prop.

External reference
  • Svelte
<script>
  import { Popover, Button } from 'flowbite-svelte'
  let placement = "";
</script>

<div id="ext-ref" class="p-2 rounded-lg border border-gray-200 dark:border-gray-600">External reference</div>
<div class="space-x-4">
<Button id="ref-1" on:mouseenter={()=> placement="left"}>Left</Button>
<Button id="ref-2" on:mouseenter={()=> placement="top"}>Top</Button>
<Button id="ref-3" on:mouseenter={()=> placement="right"}>Right</Button>
</div>
<Popover reference='#ext-ref' triggeredBy="[id^='ref-']" class="w-64 text-sm font-light " {placement} title="Placement: {placement}">
    And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?
</Popover>

Props #

Popover #

The component has the following props, type, and default values. See [types page](/docs/pages/typescript) for type information.

Name Type Default
title string ''
defaultClass string 'py-2 px-3'

Popper #

The component has the following props, type, and default values. See types page for type information.

  • Use the class prop to overwrite the default class.
Name Type Default
activeContent boolean false
arrow boolean true
offset number 8
placement Placement 'top'
trigger 'hover' | 'click' 'hover'
triggeredBy string | undefined undefined
reference string | undefined undefined
strategy 'absolute' | 'fixed' 'absolute'
open boolean false
yOnly boolean false

Frame #

The component inherits the following props, type, and default values from Frame. See types page for type information.

Name Type Default
tag string $$restProps.href ? 'a' : 'div'
color FrameColor 'default'
rounded boolean false
border boolean false
shadow boolean false
transition TransitionFunc null_transition
params object {}
node HTMLElement | undefined undefined
use Action<HTMLElement, any> noop
options string {}
role string | undefined undefined

References #

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