Feature: Add ability to display informational texts in Knobs addon

[Knagis]

For example, we might want to add some descriptive text informing the user what values should be set in certain scenarios.

Perhaps something like readonly("Important", "Read this text before changing the value of any knob").

[Gongreg]

@Knagis ,

Hey, what about using description addon for that? Or that wouldn't work for you?

[Knagis]

@Gongreg Did you mean the notes addon? I don't see anything named description in this repo. It can be used however in our case we would like to have something that can be seen together with a certain knob - basically some instructions or warnings related to a knob.

Very specifically - we have a checkbox (boolean knob) that is handled in a very special way - we want to add instruction next to the checkbox that instructs the person who uses it what other actions must be taken in order for the checkbox to take effect (in our case - reload the page).

[Gongreg]

Oh okay.

So I think one solution would be to add this functionality or storybook functionality to be able to show multiple panels at once.

Maybe you could do a small example of how this description could look like? I mean a picture or something like that :)

[shilman]

@Gongreg awesome. I'm very interested in this direction both for panels and for stories

[Knagis]

There are many different ways - one might be adding a "?" icon that show the description on tooltip:

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[bbecker-te]

Its too bad this was closed. It would be nice if once could add tooltip text to knobs. Can we just reopen this instead of creating a new issue and linking?
This could trivially be supported by having a "title" or "tooltip" attribute in the options passed to the knob constructor.

[Gongreg]

@bbecker-te, I've reopened it. It would be great if you could create a PR for it :)

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[stale]

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[lukaszrys]

I second that, it would be really nice to have an ability to add some kind of the tooltip next to the knob

[ananta-dev]

I agree it would be nice to be able to add some explanatory text next to the knob fields.
For example: "enter negative value in days to create a past date"