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>Default popover</Button>
<Popover class="w-64 text-sm font-light " title="Popover title">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>User profile</Button>
<Popover class="w-64 bg-white text-sm font-light text-gray-500 dark:border-gray-600 dark:bg-gray-800 dark:text-gray-400">
  <div class="p-3">
    <div class="mb-2 flex items-center justify-between">
      <Avatar href="/" src="/images/profile-picture-1.webp" alt="Jese Leos" />
      <Button size="xs">Follow</Button>
    </div>
    <div class="text-base leading-none font-semibold 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="me-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 { GlobeOutline, HeartSolid, ThumbsUpSolid, DotsHorizontalOutline } from "flowbite-svelte-icons";
</script>

<Button>Company profile</Button>
<Popover class="w-80 text-sm">
  <div class="flex">
    <div class="me-3 shrink-0">
      <a href="/" class="block rounded-lg bg-gray-100 p-2 dark:bg-gray-700">
        <img class="h-8 w-8 rounded-full" src="/images/flowbite-svelte-icon-logo.svg" alt="Flowbite logo" />
      </a>
    </div>
    <div>
      <p class="mb-1 text-base leading-none font-semibold 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="mb-2 flex items-center">
          <GlobeOutline class="me-2 h-3.5 w-3.5" />
          <a href="/" class="text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 hover:underline">https://flowbite.com/</a>
        </li>
        <li class="mb-2 flex items-start">
          <HeartSolid class="me-2 h-5 w-5" />
          <span>4,567,346 people like this including 5 of your friends</span>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <div class="ms-4 mb-3 flex">
        <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 text-white hover:bg-gray-600 dark:bg-gray-700">+3</Avatar>
      </div>
      <div class="flex">
        <Button color="alternative" class="me-2 w-full">
          <ThumbsUpSolid class="me-2" />
          Like page
        </Button>
        <Button color="alternative">
          <DotsHorizontalOutline class="h-3.5 w-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 { ChevronRightOutline } 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 dark:text-primary-500 underline hover:no-underline" id="href_1">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="#href_1" class="w-96 text-sm font-light" defaultClass="p-0">
  <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
          <span>
            <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="text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 dark:hover:text-primary-600 hover:text-primary-700 flex items-center font-medium">
              Read more <ChevronRightOutline class="text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 ms-1.5 h-2 w-2" />
            </a>
          </span>
        </h3>
      </div>
    </div>
    <img src="/images/italy.png" class="col-span-2 h-full rounded-e-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 { QuestionCircleSolid, ChevronRightOutline } 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">
    <QuestionCircleSolid class="ms-1.5 h-5 w-5" />
    <span class="sr-only">Show information</span>
  </button>
</div>
<Popover triggeredBy="#b3" class="w-72 bg-white text-sm font-light text-gray-500 dark:border-gray-600 dark:bg-gray-800 dark:text-gray-400" placement="bottom-start">
  <div class="space-y-2 p-3">
    <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.
    <span class="font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Calculation</span>
    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="text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 dark:hover:text-primary-600 hover:text-primary-700 flex items-center font-medium">
      Read more <ChevronRightOutline class="text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 ms-1.5 h-4 w-4" />
    </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 { DatabaseSolid, ChevronRightOutline } from "flowbite-svelte-icons";
</script>

<Button>
  <DatabaseSolid class="me-2 h-5 w-5 text-white dark:text-white" /> Storage status
</Button>
<Popover class="w-64 text-sm 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="mb-4 h-2.5 w-full rounded-full bg-gray-200 dark:bg-gray-700">
      <div class="h-2.5 rounded-full bg-red-600" style="width: 85%"></div>
    </div>
    <a href="/" class="text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 dark:hover:text-primary-600 hover:text-primary-700 flex items-center font-medium">
      Upgrade now <ChevronRightOutline class="text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-500 ms-1.5 h-4 w-4" />
    </a>
  </div>
</Popover>

Password strength #

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

  • Svelte
<script lang="ts">
  import { Popover, Label, Input, Checkbox, Button } from "flowbite-svelte";
  import { CheckOutline, CloseOutline } from "flowbite-svelte-icons";
  const preventDefault = <E extends Event>(fn: (event: E) => void) => {
    return function (this: any, event: E) {
      event.preventDefault();
      fn.call(this, event);
    };
  };
  const handler = () => {
    alert("Submitted!");
  };
</script>

<form onsubmit={preventDefault(handler)} 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" />
  </div>
  <div class="mb-6">
    <Label for="password" class="mb-2">Your password</Label>
    <Input type="password" id="password" />
  </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>
    <div class="h-1 bg-orange-300 dark:bg-orange-400"></div>
    <div class="h-1 bg-gray-200 dark:bg-gray-600"></div>
    <div class="h-1 bg-gray-200 dark:bg-gray-600"></div>
  </div>
  <p class="py-2">It’s better to have:</p>
  <ul>
    <li class="mb-1 flex items-center">
      <CheckOutline class="me-2 h-4 w-4 text-green-400 dark:text-green-500" />
      Upper &amp; lower case letters
    </li>
    <li class="mb-1 flex items-center">
      <CheckOutline class="me-2 h-4 w-4 text-green-400 dark:text-green-500" />
      A symbol (#$&amp;)
    </li>
    <li class="flex items-center">
      <CloseOutline class="me-2 h-4 w-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 lang="ts">
  import { Popover, Button } from "flowbite-svelte";
  let placement = $state("bottom");

  function onbeforetoggle(ev: Event) {
    const trigger = (ev as { trigger?: { id?: string } }).trigger;
    if (trigger?.id) {
      placement = trigger.id.replace("placement-", "");
    }
  }
</script>

<Button id="placement-top">Top popover</Button>
<div class="space-x-4 rtl:space-x-reverse">
  <Button id="placement-left">Left popover</Button>
  <Button id="placement-right">Right popover</Button>
</div>
<Button id="placement-bottom">Bottom popover</Button>
<Popover triggeredBy="[id^='placement-']" placement={placement as PopoverProps["placement"]} class="w-64 text-sm font-light " title="Popover {placement}" {onbeforetoggle}>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>Default popover</Button>
<Popover offset={30} class="w-64 text-sm font-light" title="Popover title">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="my-4 rounded-lg border border-gray-200 p-2 dark:border-gray-600">External reference</div>
<div class="space-x-4 rtl:space-x-reverse">
  <Button id="ref-1">Left</Button>
  <Button id="ref-2">Top</Button>
  <Button id="ref-3">Right</Button>
</div>
<Popover reference="#ext-ref" triggeredBy="#ref-1" class="w-64 text-sm font-light " placement="left" title="Placement: Left">And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>
<Popover reference="#ext-ref" triggeredBy="#ref-2" class="w-64 text-sm font-light " placement="top" title="Placement: Top">And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>
<Popover reference="#ext-ref" triggeredBy="#ref-3" class="w-64 text-sm font-light " placement="right" title="Placement: Right">And here's some amazing content. It's very engaging. Right?</Popover>

Component data #

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

References #