How can I make Twitter Bootstrap tooltips look like the popovers (without the title line)?

Question

I'd like to replace the Twitter Bootstrap tooltip styles with the popover styles. How can I do that?

Tooltips look like this by default:

Popovers look like this by default:

I'd like my tooltips to be white, with a gray border, just like the popovers.

Can you help?

Answer 1

JQuery UI is interfering with bootstrap.

They aren't really compatible with each other as they overlap in a lot of functionality.

I had this problem a few weeks back and found this page but I didn't want to start adding custom css for something that should 'just work'. After removing JQuery UI today (for another reason) I noticed the tool-tips started looking as intended. I know this is an old question but I would have found this answer useful a few weeks ago.

Answer 2

Here's how I got it to work:

Add to variables.less

@tooltipArrowOuterWidth:  @tooltipArrowWidth + 1;
@tooltipArrowOuterColor:  rgba(0,0,0,.25);

Add to custom LESS file

// Tooltip
// --------------------------------------------------
.tooltip.in { .opacity(100); }

.tooltip-inner {
    background:@popoverTitleBackground;
    color:@gray;
}
.tooltip .arrow {
    border-width: @tooltipArrowOuterWidth;
}


.tooltip {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  z-index: @zindexPopover;
  display: none;
  max-width: 276px;
  padding: 1px;
  text-align: left; // Reset given new insertion method
  background-color: @popoverBackground;
  -webkit-background-clip: padding-box;
     -moz-background-clip: padding;
          background-clip: padding-box;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,.2);
  .border-radius(6px);
  .box-shadow(0 5px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.2));

  // Overrides for proper insertion
  white-space: normal;

  // Offset the popover to account for the popover arrow
  &.top     { margin-top: -10px; }
  &.right   { margin-left: 10px; }
  &.bottom  { margin-top: 10px; }
  &.left    { margin-left: -10px; }
}

.tooltip-inner {
  margin: 0; // reset heading margin
  padding: 4px 8px;
  font-size: @baseFontSize * 0.9;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 18px;
  background-color: @popoverTitleBackground;
  border-bottom: 1px solid darken(@popoverTitleBackground, 5%);
  .border-radius(5px 5px 0 0);

  &:empty {
    display: none;
  }
}

// Arrows
//
// .arrow is outer, .arrow:after is inner

.tooltip .tooltip-arrow,
.tooltip .tooltip-arrow:after {
  position: absolute;
  display: block;
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  border-color: transparent;
  border-style: solid;
}
.tooltip .tooltip-arrow {
  border-width: @tooltipArrowOuterWidth;
}
.tooltip .tooltip-arrow:after {
  border-width: @tooltipArrowWidth;
  content: "";
}

.tooltip {
  &.top .tooltip-arrow {
    left: 50%;
    margin-left: -@tooltipArrowOuterWidth;
    border-bottom-width: 0;
    border-top-color: #999; // IE8 fallback
    border-top-color: @popoverArrowOuterColor;
    bottom: -@tooltipArrowOuterWidth;
    &:after {
      bottom: 1px;
      margin-left: -@tooltipArrowWidth;
      border-bottom-width: 0;
      border-top-color: @tooltipArrowColor;
    }
  }
  &.right .tooltip-arrow {
    top: 50%;
    left: -@tooltipArrowOuterWidth;
    margin-top: -@tooltipArrowOuterWidth;
    border-left-width: 0;
    border-right-color: #999; // IE8 fallback
    border-right-color: @tooltipArrowOuterColor;
    &:after {
      left: 1px;
      bottom: -@tooltipArrowWidth;
      border-left-width: 0;
      border-right-color: @tooltipArrowColor;
    }
  }
  &.bottom .tooltip-arrow {
    left: 50%;
    margin-left: -@tooltipArrowOuterWidth;
    border-top-width: 0;
    border-bottom-color: #999; // IE8 fallback
    border-bottom-color: @tooltipArrowOuterColor;
    top: -@tooltipArrowOuterWidth;
    &:after {
      top: 1px;
      margin-left: -@tooltipArrowWidth;
      border-top-width: 0;
      border-bottom-color: @tooltipArrowColor;
    }
  }

  &.left .tooltip-arrow {
    top: 50%;
    right: -@tooltipArrowOuterWidth;
    margin-top: -@tooltipArrowOuterWidth;
    border-right-width: 0;
    border-left-color: #999; // IE8 fallback
    border-left-color: @tooltipArrowOuterColor;
    &:after {
      right: 1px;
      border-right-width: 0;
      border-left-color: @tooltipArrowColor;
      bottom: -@tooltipArrowWidth;
    }
  }

}