# Tooltips > Easily add tooltips to elements or components via the `` component or > [`v-b-tooltip`](/docs/directives/tooltip) directive (preferred method). ```html
Hover Me Hover Me I am tooltip component content!
``` ## Overview Things to know when using tooltip component: - Tooltips rely on the 3rd party library [Popper.js](https://popper.js.org/) for positioning. - Tooltips require BootstrapVue's custom SCSS/CSS in order to function correctly, and for variants. - Triggering tooltips on hidden elements will not work. - Specify `container` as `null` (default, appends to ``) to avoid rendering problems in more complex components (like input groups, button groups, etc). You can use container to optionally specify a different element to append the rendered tooltip to. - Tooltips for `disabled` elements must be triggered on a wrapper element. - When triggered from hyperlinks that span multiple lines, tooltips will be centered. Use white-space: nowrap; on your ``s, ``s and ``s to avoid this behavior. The target element **must** exist in the document before `` is mounted. If the target element is not found during mount, the tooltip will never open. Always place your `` component lower in the DOM than your target element. This rule also applies if a callback is used as target element, since that callback is called only once on mount. ## Positioning Twelve options are available for positioning: `top`, `topleft`, `topright`, `right`, `righttop`, `rightbottom`, `bottom`, `bottomleft`, `bottomright`, `left`, `lefttop`, and `leftbottom` aligned. The default position is `top`. Positioning is relative to the trigger element.
## Triggers Tooltips can be triggered (opened/closed) via any combination of `click`, `hover` and `focus`. The default trigger is `hover focus`. Or a trigger of `manual` can be specified, where the popover can only be opened or closed [programmatically](#programmatically-disabling-tooltip). If a tooltip has more than one trigger, then all triggers must be cleared before the tooltip will close. I.e. if a tooltip has the trigger `focus click`, and it was opened by `focus`, and the user then clicks the trigger element, they must click it again **and** move focus to close the tooltip. ### Caveats with `focus` trigger on `