# d3.tip: Tooltips for d3.js visualizations

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* [See a live demo](http://bl.ocks.org/Caged/6476579)
* [Example code](/examples)

### API Docs
See the [API Documentation](docs/index.md)

### Download Latest Version
* [Development Version](https://raw.github.com/Caged/d3-tip/master/index.js) : **6kb** / **~2kb gzipped**

### Install with Bower
```
bower install d3-tip
```

### Quick Usage
``` javascript

/* Initialize tooltip */
tip = d3.tip().attr('class', 'd3-tip').html(function(d) { return d; });

/* Invoke the tip in the context of your visualization */
vis.call(tip)

vis.selectAll('rect')
  .data(data)
.enter().append('rect')
  .attr('width', function() { return x.rangeBand() })
  .attr('height', function(d) { return h - y(d) })
  .attr('y', function(d) { return y(d) })
  .attr('x', function(d, i) { return x(i) })
  /* Show and hide tip on mouse events */
  .on('mouseover', tip.show)
  .on('mouseout', tip.hide)
```