Overlays · stable · MIT

Hover Card

A supporting preview for a focused or hovered link.

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Add Hover Card

Base UI / canonicalnpx shadcn@latest add https://gummyui.dev/r/gummy-hover-card.json
Radix UI counterpartnpx shadcn@latest add https://gummyui.dev/r/gummy-radix-hover-card.json

Canonical dependency: @base-ui/react. Radix counterpart: @radix-ui/react-hover-card. Registry dependencies are resolved automatically.

Behavior contract

Semantics before surface

Semantics

A Base UI tooltip-derived non-modal popup with hoverable content.

Keyboard

Focus opens; Escape closes without trapping.

System support

Light and dark themes, logical RTL layout, reduced motion, responsive content, and forwarded public refs.

Source-derived reference

Anatomy and public API

Exported anatomy

These public React parts are read directly from the canonical source during the documentation build.

  • GummyHoverCard
  • GummyHoverCardPopup
  • GummyHoverCardPositioner
  • GummyHoverCardTrigger

Prop contracts

GummyHoverCardProps

Composes Tooltip.Root.Props

Troubleshooting

Check behavior before surface.

Live product source

Inspect the canonical states

The Component Lab exercises real source across default, focus, disabled, responsive, dark, reduced-motion, and RTL contexts.

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Interactive inspection

Try Hover Card in context

Resize the canvas, switch its theme, or reverse its reading direction without changing the rest of the page.

Width
Theme
Direction

Hover Card preview: fluid width, light theme, left to right.

Radix UI counterpart

Try Hover Card with Radix UI

This is the real separately installable Radix source using the same Gummy material and behavior contract.

Editable source

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Canonical Base UI or native source

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