Spectre Multiline Tooltips

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

Spectre Tooltips are quite useful for showing the description of different elements in the webpage. Tooltip can be invoked on any element in a webpage. It provide context information labels that appear on hover and focus. Tooltips component is built entirely in CSS.

The normal tooltip will try to display the data-tooltip content in a single line, so because of that tooltip can appear on different element. That's why we need multiline tooltips. 

Spectre Multiline tooltips Class: There is no predefined class for this you just need to add the \n string between any text for multiline tooltips.

Syntax:

<button class="btn tooltip" 
        data-tooltip=".... \n ...">
        ....
</button>

Example: Below example illustrate the Spectre Multiline tooltips. The multi line tooltip only works on Opera.

HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <title>SPECTRE Multiline Tooltip Class</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet"
        href=
"https://unpkg.com/spectre.css@0.5.9/dist/spectre.min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet"
        href=
"https://unpkg.com/spectre.css@0.5.9/dist/spectre-exp.min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet"
        href=
"https://unpkg.com/spectre.css@0.5.9/dist/spectre-icons.min.css">
</head>

<body>
    <center>
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
        <strong>SPECTRE Multiline Tooltip Class</strong>
        <br><br>
        <button class="btn tooltip tooltip-left" 
                data-tooltip="Left Tooltip \n Multiline">
            Left Tooltip
        </button>
        <button class="btn tooltip tooltip-top" 
                data-tooltip="Top Tooltip \n Multiline">
            Top Tooltip
        </button>
        <button class="btn tooltip tooltip-bottom" 
                data-tooltip="Bottom Tooltip \n Multiline">
            Bottom Tooltip
        </button>
        <button class="btn tooltip tooltip-right" 
                data-tooltip="Right Tooltip \n Multiline">
            Right Tooltip
        </button>
    </center>
</body>

</html>

  

Output: 


 

Spectre Multiline tooltips
Spectre Multiline tooltips


 

Reference: https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/components/tooltips.html#tooltips-multiline


 

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