@felte/reporter-tippy

A Felte reporter that uses Tippy.js to display your error messages.

[!WARNING] Tippy.js has not been maintained for the last few years (and floating-ui seems to be its replacement) Therefore I would not recommend using this package anymore and should be considered deprecated.

Installation

npm install --save @felte/reporter-tippy tippy.js

# Or, if you use yarn

yarn add @felte/reporter-tippy tippy.js

Usage

The default export is a function that returns the reporter. Add it to the extend property of Felte's createForm configuration object.

import reporter from '@felte/reporter-tippy';

const { form } = createForm({
  // ...
  extend: reporter(),
  // ...
});

You might want to add Tippy's styles somewhere in your repo as well

import 'tippy.js/dist/tippy.css';

Options

You can pass options to Tippy when calling the reporter like so:

reporter({
  tippyProps: {
    /* tippy options */
  },
});

You can also pass a setContent function that will receive the current validation messages and the field path. Here you can modify your validation messages, which can come in useful if you want to display HTML content inside of Tippy. The messages argument will either be an array of strings (it can be more than one message depending on your validation strategy) or undefined. The path argument will be a string with the full path of your field (e.g. email, account.email, etc).

reporter({
  setContent: (messages, path) => {
    return messages?.map((message) => `<p>${message}</p>`);
  },
  tippyProps: {
    allowHTML: true,
  },
});

You may also pass options to a specific Tippy instance using the tippyPropsMap property. It expects an object with the same shape as your data:

reporter({
  tippyPropsMap: {
    account: {
      email: {
        allowHTML: true,
        /* other tippy props */
      },
    },
  },
});

Warnings

This reporter can also display your warning messages. In order to do so you'll need to pass the property level to your reporter with a value of warning.

reporter({
  level: 'warning',
});

In order to avoid cluttering your UI it'd be recommended to use Tippy to report errors OR warnings, not both.

Opting out

If this package does not satisfy your needs for all cases, do know we are working on improving this, but you may as well opt-out of reporting a specific field's error by adding data-felte-reporter-tippy-ignore as an attribute to your input.

<input name="email" data-felte-reporter-tippy-ignore />

Custom controls

If you're using a custom control not managed by Felte, you can still make use of @felte/reporter-tippy. For this you can use two data attributes:

• data-felte-reporter-tippy-for: tells this package to use the element with this attribute as a control for the specified field.
• data-felte-reporter-tippy-trigger-for: tells this package to use the element(s) with this attribute as a trigger to show Tippy for the specified field.

The custom control will always be a trigger for tippy, the second argument is useful if you want to trigger Tippy with another element such as a label to mimic this package's default behaviour.

<span id="email-label" data-felte-reporter-tippy-trigger-for="email"
  >Email:</span
>
<div
  contenteditable
  data-felte-reporter-tippy-for="email"
  aria-labelledby="email-label"
  tabindex="0"
/>

Custom positioning

If you need to show your Tippy in a different position, you may use the data-felte-reporter-tippy-position-for attribute. This would be useful if you're using a custom control that does use a valid HTML input behind the scenes but hides it:

<!-- Tippy will be shown on top of this div -->
<div data-felte-reporter-tippy-position-for="email" />
<!-- Not on top of this input -->
<input name="email" type="email" />