Tooltip not placed properly if in modal

[maxmatthews]

The tooltip is being positioned on the modal itself instead of the original tooltip (with the red box around it). Any suggestions on how to get this to anchor to the proper component?

[wwayne]

Do you have any code to show me? you can put the <ReactTooltip /> out of the modal

<div>
  <Modal><i data-tip='tooltip'><i><Modal>
  <ReactTooltip />
<div>

if your modal's z-index higher than the tooltip, you need to use the attribute class to custom tooltip's z-index, and if opening the modal will cause re-render(re-render the modal), you need use ReactTooltip.rebuild() to relocation the tooltip.

[maxmatthews]

Unfortunately I can't easily move the ReactTooltip outside of the modal because the modal automatically mounts outside the root component. I tried moving the z-index above the modal and placing javascript componentDidMount(){ ReactTooltip.rebuild(); },
in my Modal's contents and had no luck. Let me know if you need more code and I'll minify mine down a bit more. The basic structure is

<Modal>
<h1>Text Here</h1>
<div style={{display: "inline-block"}}>
    <div onMouseOver={this.onMouseOver}>
        {this.state.tooltipContent == "Loading" ?
            <div data-for="top"
                  data-tip={this.state.tooltipContent}
                  className={className}></div> :
            <div>
                <div data-for={this.props.messageID + "|" + this.props.messageName + "|" + randNum}
                      data-tip={this.state.tooltipContent}
                      className={className}></div>
                <ReactTooltip
                    class="tooltipContent"
                    place="right"
                    type="light"
                    effect="solid"
                    ref="tooltip"
                    html={true}
                    id={this.props.messageID + "|" + this.props.messageName + "|" + randNum}/>
            </div>
        }
    </div>
</div>
</Modal>

I'm loading the tooltip content via an AJAX call so my code is a little complex, but it is working everywhere else but the modal. And it pulls the content in for the modal, just doesn't position it properly.

[wwayne]

@maxmatthews I did some test, can you try componentDidUpdate() { ReactTooltip.rebuild() }? I'm not sure if it would solve your problem

[maxmatthews]

ReactTooltip.rebuild() doesn't seem to fix the positioning problem. Whether I call it on componentDidUpdate or when I open the modal or on a second delay after I open the modal using setTimeout or even when I call it in the JS Browser console before or after I open the modal, it still is positioned wrong.

[maxmatthews]

This is the modal I'm using BTW: https://github.com/reactjs/react-modal

[wwayne]

@maxmatthews Okay, I did some experiments again using react-modal and some of your code, so here I think you can follow these three steps:

1.Move <ReactTooltip> out of modal

<div>
 <Modal>
    <div onMouseOver={this.onMouseOver}>
       <div data-for={this.state.tooltipContent === 'loading' && 'top' || (this.props.messageID + "|" + this.props.messageName + "|" + randNum)}
             data-tip={this.state.tooltipContent} className={className}></div>
    </div> 
 </Modal>
 <ReactTooltip ... />
</div>

2.Add React.rebuild() when modal open, for me, I wrote it like:

 openModal () {
    this.setState({modalIsOpen: true}, () => {
      ReactTooltip.rebuild()
    });
  }

3.I suppose that you have built a bunch of tooltip for every modal, maybe it doesn't make sense, you can just have one <ReactTooltip /> out of modal, if you have any custom requirement for tooltip, you can use data-attribute on the target element.

The key logic here is, put <ReactTooltip> out of modal, it just like a tooltip control centre, you don't have to bind it with Modal. And when opening modal, call rebuild to let <ReactTooltip /> to re-calculate the position of the new tooltips

[cristiandan]

I had the same issue today, same library used, and solved it by moving <ReactTooltip> out of the modal. But I didn't have to move the tooltip in the Main Component, but move the ModalDialog one step down in the hierarchy.

Here's my code if anyone needs help:

MainComponent

render() {

      return(
      <div>
          <ModalContainer onClose={this.closeModal}>
               // I had <ModalDialog onClose={this.closeModal}> here, but I moved them in MyCustomModalContent 
              <MyCustomModalContent job={jobs.selectedModalJob} onClose={this.closeModal} onSave={onSave}/>
              // and here </ModalDialog>
          </ModalContainer> : "" }
      </div>
      )

and the MyCustomModalContent code:

render () {

        var tooltips = []

        for (const key in this.state.attributes) {
            tooltips.push(<div key={key}> 
                <ReactTooltip place="bottom" type="dark" effect="float" id={key}>
                    <span>{this.state.attributes[key].description}</span>
                </ReactTooltip>
            </div>);
        }

        return (
           <div>
            <ModalDialog onClose={this.props.onClose}> // I just moved ModalDialog here and that's pretty much all the change I had to do to make it work.
                <div>
                    {job.name}
                    {activeRows}
                    Advanced:
                    {advancedRows}

                    <button onClick={this.onClickSave}>save</button>

                </div>
                </ModalDialog> // I just moved ModalDialog here
                {tooltipsList} // the tooltips are outside ModalDialog although still in MyCustomModalContent 
            </div>
        );
}

Hope it helps.

[maxmatthews]

Ok, now I feel like a real idiot and must be missing something simple after such a detailed and helpful response. Now no tooltip shows up on hover. Here's my code.

Master = React.createClass({
  openModal(){
    this.setState({
      showModal: true
    }, ()=>{ReactTooltip.rebuild()})
  },
  render() {
   return <div>
    <Modal
      isOpen={this.state.showModal}
      onRequestClose={this.closeModal}
      className="modal"
      overlayClassName="modalOverlay"
      >
      <div className="row">
        <MyModalContent/>
      </div>
    </Modal>
    <ReactTooltip
      class="tooltipContent"
      place="right"
      type="light"
      effect="solid"
      html={true}
      id={"myUniqueID"}/>
  }
  </div>
});

MyModalContent = React.createClass({
  render(){
    return <div>
      Some text and a tooltip
      <div data-for="myUniqueID"
           data-tip="This is the text in the tooltip"
           className="tooltipContent"></div>
    </div>
  }
});

[maxmatthews]

Well now I really feel like an idiot because I just put my example code in a blank react project and it's working fine. Ignore me for now, going to debug in my master project to figure out what's causing the issue there and then will post back here.

[maxmatthews]

When I converted my code to example code to post I put the tooltip inside the modal instead of outside of it. The above code (thanks to @wwayne and @cristiandan help) works in the modal. That may be a good misc. note to add to the readme, "If using tooltips inside of react-modal, the <ReactTooltip> must be placed outside the <Modal> but the <div> it's being attached to can be placed inside the modal's content tag. You should also add ReactTooltip.rebuild() to the onAfterOpen prop of the <Modal> component. If the <ReactTooltip> is placed within the <Modal> it may not position properly or show at all."
If you're up for adding that, do you want me to make a pull request?

[wwayne]

@maxmatthews Cool, I will add the notes to README since lots of people was stuck in this.

[itsmichaeldiego]

My problem is that my whole page where I want to place the tooltip is the modal, is there any way to do it without moving it out? @wwayne