Styling d3´s tooltip

Question

I implement a tooltip over circles placed through d3 on a leafletmap like this:

var tooltip = d3.select(\"body\")
    .append(\"div\")
    .attr(\"id\", \"my         


        

Answer 1

This is what I like to do. First, I set the CSS style for the tooltip, using a div with a class named "tooltip":

div.tooltip {   
    position: absolute;         
    etc...          
}

Then I set a tooltip var (here, svgId is the ID of the element where you append your SVG, not much different of selecting "body" as you did):

var tooltip = d3.select("#svgId").append("div") 
    .attr("class", "tooltip")               
    .style("opacity", 0);

The div has 0 opacity. Then it's just a matter of showing the tooltip on mouseover or mousemove:

selection.on("mousemove", function(d) {
    tooltip.html(" Look, I'm bold ! and now I'm not bold

        and this is another line!and this is my data: " + d.whatever)
        .style('top', d3.event.pageY - 12 + 'px')
        .style('left', d3.event.pageX + 25 + 'px')
        .style("opacity", 1);
});

You can use HTML tags to style your text inside the tooltip, making it bold, italic etc. And, finally, we make the tooltip disappear on mouseout (as you did):

selection.on("mouseout", function(d) {
    tooltip.style("opacity", 0);
});

Since the div with 0 opacity still takes space in the page, a better approach is changing its display property from none to block during the mouseover, and back to none in the mouse out.