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disabled buttons prevent the tooltip from showing

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When I set a button element to disabled, it’s tippy never displays on click or hover event. Is there a workaround for this?

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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atomikscommented, Sep 3, 2018

Yes: use a wrapper element that isn’t disabled and apply the tooltip to that.

<div title="tooltip" tabindex="0">
  <button disabled>btn</button>
</div>

tippy('div')

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atomikscommented, Nov 8, 2018

Well a div is a block element, if you are wrapping an input use a span element instead

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