I am new to angular 7 directives. I created a custom tooltip directive using angular 7. Now, I am unable to specify line breaks when i pass the tooltip text from my html. I want a line break after the Tootltip Title text I pass from html. Any idea how to achieve this?
Tried to pass and 
code for line break in my input string to the tooltip directive. Didn't work either.
Here is what I tried so far.
My directive : tooltip.directive.ts:
import { Directive, Input, ElementRef, HostListener, Renderer2 } from '@angular/core';
@Directive({
selector: '[tooltip]'
})
export class TooltipDirective {
@Input('tooltip') tooltipTitle: string;
@Input() placement: string;
@Input() delay: number;
tooltip: HTMLElement;
offset = 10;
constructor(private el: ElementRef, private renderer: Renderer2) { }
@HostListener('mouseenter') onMouseEnter() {
if (!this.tooltip) { this.show(); }
}
@HostListener('mouseleave') onMouseLeave() {
if (this.tooltip) { this.hide(); }
}
show() {
this.create();
this.setPosition();
this.renderer.addClass(this.tooltip, 'ng-tooltip-show');
}
hide() {
this.renderer.removeClass(this.tooltip, 'ng-tooltip-show');
window.setTimeout(() => {
this.renderer.removeChild(document.body, this.tooltip);
this.tooltip = null;
}, 0);
}
create() {
this.tooltip = this.renderer.createElement('span');
this.renderer.appendChild(
this.tooltip,
this.renderer.createText(this.tooltipTitle) // textNode
);
this.renderer.appendChild(document.body, this.tooltip);
this.renderer.addClass(this.tooltip, 'ng-tooltip');
this.renderer.addClass(this.tooltip, `ng-tooltip-${this.placement}`);
}
setPosition() {
const hostPos = this.el.nativeElement.getBoundingClientRect();
const tooltipPos = this.tooltip.getBoundingClientRect();
let top, left;
if (this.placement === 'top') {
top = hostPos.top - tooltipPos.height - this.offset;
left = hostPos.left + (hostPos.width - tooltipPos.width) / 2;
}
/* other positions to be added */
this.renderer.setStyle(this.tooltip, 'top', `${top}px`);
this.renderer.setStyle(this.tooltip, 'left', `${left}px`);
}
}
CSS :
/* Styles for tooltip */
.ng-tooltip {
position: absolute;
max-width: 150px;
font-size: 14px;
text-align: center;
color: #f8f8f2;
padding: 3px 8px;
border-radius: 2px;
box-shadow: 0 2px 4px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
background-color: #38393b;
z-index: 1000;
opacity: 0;
}
.ng-tooltip:after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
border-style: solid;
}
.ng-tooltip-top:after {
top: 100%;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -5px;
border-width: 5px;
border-color: #38393b transparent transparent transparent;
}
.ng-tooltip-show {
opacity: 1;
}
From the html file, I invoke the tooltip directive by passing the text like this:
<div tooltip="Title: ( want a line break here) 
 {{someVariable}}" placement="top" class="remark">Hover Here</div>
This can be resolved by taking any of the approach, Either create two different input such as
@Input('Title'): string
and@Input('Body'): string
and pass into two different parameters. OR if you want to pass it in a single parameter make a use of interface such asAssign this interface to your tooltip variable
@Input('tooltip') tooltipTitle: ITooltip;
Rest of the things can taken care undercreate()
funciton.Thanks.