Frontend developers hit limits customizing chart tooltips
The cited requests describe chart developers who need more control over when tooltips appear, where they sit, and what they contain—including keyboard-triggered, clickable, rich, or aggregated content. The chart libraries in these reports expose limitations around those behaviors, leaving developers to work within hover-oriented or otherwise constrained tooltip APIs. One request concerns general Angular popovers, but the main opportunity is chart-tooltip customization.
For frontend developers building interactive data visualizations. Mentioned from Sep 2016 to Aug 2023 on GitHub.
7 different people described this problem in 5 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 4.0/10
- Frequency
- 7.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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I want to show the tooltip if item is focused. This is necessary for better accessibility. But there is no feature to programmatically show and hide the tooltip
I would like a way to programatically display the tooltip on my chart. E.g. triggered via a callback on another parent component of the `` component), where I provide dataset key I want the tooltip to display information for
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