Popover

Display arbitrary content inside floating panels.

Import

Import the Popover primitives from ng-primitives/popover.

import { NgpPopover, NgpPopoverTrigger, NgpPopoverArrow } from 'ng-primitives/popover';

Usage

Assemble the popover directives in your template.

<button [ngpPopoverTrigger]="popover" (ngpPopoverTriggerOpenChange)="onPopoverStateChange($event)">
  Click me
</button>

<ng-template #popover>
  <div ngpPopover>Popover content</div>
</ng-template>

You can listen to the ngpPopoverTriggerOpenChange event to perform actions when the popover state changes. The event emits a boolean value indicating whether the popover is open or closed:

Examples

Custom Offset

You can customize the offset using either a simple number or an object for more precise control:

<!-- Simple number offset -->
<button [ngpPopoverTrigger]="popover" ngpPopoverTriggerOffset="12">Popover with 12px offset</button>

<!-- Object offset for precise control -->
<button
  [ngpPopoverTrigger]="popover"
  [ngpPopoverTriggerOffset]="{mainAxis: 8, crossAxis: 4, alignmentAxis: 2}"
>
  Popover with custom offset
</button>

Custom Shift

You can customize the shift behavior to control how the popover stays within the viewport:

<!-- Disable shift -->
<button [ngpPopoverTrigger]="popover" [ngpPopoverTriggerShift]="false">
  Popover without shift
</button>

<!-- Object shift for precise control -->
<button [ngpPopoverTrigger]="popover" [ngpPopoverTriggerShift]="{padding: 8}">
  Popover with custom shift padding
</button>

Reusable Component

Create a popover component that uses the NgpPopover directive.

Schematics

Generate a reusable tooltip component using the Angular CLI.

ng g ng-primitives:primitive popover

Options

• path: The path at which to create the component file.
• prefix: The prefix to apply to the generated component selector.
• componentSuffix: The suffix to apply to the generated component class name.
• fileSuffix: The suffix to apply to the generated component file name. Defaults to component.
• exampleStyles: Whether to include example styles in the generated component file. Defaults to true

Examples

Popover with anchor

The popover can be anchored to a different element than the trigger.

API Reference

The following directives are available to import from the ng-primitives/popover package:

NgpPopover

Data Attributes

The following CSS custom properties are applied to the ngpPopover directive:

NgpPopoverTrigger

Data Attributes

NgpPopoverArrow

The NgpPopoverArrow directive is used to add an arrow to the popover. It should be placed inside the popover content. It will receive inset-inline-start or inset-block-start styles to position the arrow based on the popover's placement. As a result it should be positioned absolutely within the popover content.

The arrow can be styled conditionally based on the popover's final placement using the data-placement attribute:

[ngpPopoverArrow][data-placement='top'] {
  /* Arrow styles when popover is positioned on top */
}

[ngpPopoverArrow][data-placement='bottom'] {
  /* Arrow styles when popover is positioned on bottom */
}

Data Attributes

Styling

For the popover to be positioned correctly relative to the trigger element, it must use absolute or fixed positioning. For example, you can use the following CSS:

[ngpPopover] {
  position: absolute;
}

Animations

The ngpPopover primitive adds a CSS custom property --ngp-popover-transform-origin to the element that can be used to animate the popover from the trigger element.

The ngpPopover will also add the data-enter and data-exit attributes to the element when it is being added or removed from the DOM. This can be used to trigger animations.

:host[data-enter] {
  animation: fade-in 0.2s ease-in-out;
}

:host[data-exit] {
  animation: fade-out 0.2s ease-in-out;
}

Global Configuration

You can configure the default options for all popovers in your application by using the providePopoverConfig function in a providers array.

import { providePopoverConfig } from 'ng-primitives/popover';

bootstrapApplication(AppComponent, {
  providers: [
    providePopoverConfig({
      offset: 4,
      placement: 'top',
      showDelay: 0,
      hideDelay: 0,
      flip: true,
      container: document.body,
      closeOnOutsideClick: true,
      scrollBehavior: 'reposition',
    }),
  ],
});

NgpPopoverConfig

offset: {
  mainAxis: 8,     // Distance between popover and trigger element
  crossAxis: 4,    // Skidding along the alignment axis  
  alignmentAxis: 2 // Same as crossAxis but for aligned placements
}

shift: {
  padding: 8,     // Minimum padding between popover and viewport edges
  limiter: {      // Optional limiter to control shifting behavior
    fn: limitShift,
    options: { /* limiter options */ }
  }
}