Styling the arrow on bootstrap tooltips [duplicate]

Answer 1

I have created fiddle for you.

Take a look at here

<p>
    <a class="tooltip" href="#">Tooltip
        <span>
            <img alt="CSS Tooltip callout"
                 src="http://www.menucool.com/tooltip/src/callout.gif" class="callout">
            <strong>Most Light-weight Tooltip</strong><br>
            This is the easy-to-use Tooltip driven purely by CSS.
        </span>
    </a>
</p>

 

a.tooltip {
    outline: none;
}

a.tooltip strong {
    line-height: 30px;
}

a.tooltip:hover {
    text-decoration: none;
}

a.tooltip span {
    z-index: 10;
    display: none;
    padding: 14px 20px;
    margin-top: -30px;
    margin-left: 28px;
    width: 240px;
    line-height: 16px;
}

a.tooltip:hover span {
    display: inline;
    position: absolute;
    color: #111;
    border: 1px solid #DCA;
    background: #fffAF0;
}

.callout {
    z-index: 20;
    position: absolute;
    top: 30px;
    border: 0;
    left: -12px;
}
/*CSS3 extras*/
a.tooltip span {
    border-radius: 4px;
    -moz-border-radius: 4px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 4px;
    -moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 8px #CCC;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 8px #CCC;
    box-shadow: 5px 5px 8px #CCC;
}

Answer 2

In case you are going around and around to figure this out and none of the options above are working, it is possible you are experiencing a name space conflict of .tooltip with bootstrap and jquery.

See this answer on how to fix: jQueryUI Tooltips are competing with Twitter Bootstrap

Answer 3

Use this style sheet to get you started !

.tooltip{
    position:absolute;
    z-index:1020;
    display:block;
    visibility:visible;
    padding:5px;
    font-size:11px;
    opacity:0;
    filter:alpha(opacity=0)
}
.tooltip.in{
    opacity:.8;
    filter:alpha(opacity=80)
}
.tooltip.top{
    margin-top:-2px
}
.tooltip.right{
    margin-left:2px
}
.tooltip.bottom{
    margin-top:2px
}
.tooltip.left{
    margin-left:-2px
}
.tooltip.top .tooltip-arrow{
    bottom:0;
    left:50%;
    margin-left:-5px;
    border-left:5px solid transparent;
    border-right:5px solid transparent;
    border-top:5px solid #000
}
.tooltip.left .tooltip-arrow{
    top:50%;
    right:0;
    margin-top:-5px;
    border-top:5px solid transparent;
    border-bottom:5px solid transparent;
    border-left:5px solid #000
}
.tooltip.bottom .tooltip-arrow{
    top:0;
    left:50%;
    margin-left:-5px;
    border-left:5px solid transparent;
    border-right:5px solid transparent;
    border-bottom:5px solid #000
}
.tooltip.right .tooltip-arrow{
    top:50%;
    left:0;
    margin-top:-5px;
    border-top:5px solid transparent;
    border-bottom:5px solid transparent;
    border-right:5px solid #000
}
.tooltip-inner{
    max-width:200px;
    padding:3px 8px;
    color:#fff;
    text-align:center;
    text-decoration:none;
    background-color:#000;
    -webkit-border-radius:4px;
    -moz-border-radius:4px;
    border-radius:4px
}
.tooltip-arrow{
    position:absolute;
    width:0;
    height:0
}

Answer 4

For styling each directional arrows(left, right,top and bottom), we have to select each arrow using CSS attribute selector and then style them individually.

Trick: Top arrow must have border color only on top side and transparent on other 3 sides. Other directional arrows also need to be styled this way.

click here for Working Jsfiddle Link

Here is the simple CSS,

.tooltip-inner { background-color:#8447cf;}

[data-placement="top"] + .tooltip > .tooltip-arrow { border-top-color: #8447cf;}

[data-placement="right"] + .tooltip > .tooltip-arrow { border-right-color: #8447cf;}

[data-placement="bottom"] + .tooltip > .tooltip-arrow {border-bottom-color: #8447cf;}

[data-placement="left"] + .tooltip > .tooltip-arrow {border-left-color: #8447cf; }