Tooltips must be initialized with jQuery: select the specified element and call the tooltip() method.
The following code will enable all tooltips on the document:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip();
});Tooltips work with buttons and button links.
<div class="btn-group">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Example text giving more information.">Tooltip on button</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-link" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Example text giving more information.">Tooltip on link</button>
</div>You can change the direction which a tooltip appears by adding a data-placement attribute to the button.
<div class="btn-group">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-placement="left" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Tooltip on left">Tooltip on left</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-placement="right" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Tooltip on right">Tooltip on right</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-placement="bottom" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Tooltip on bottom">Tooltip on bottom</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-placement="top" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Tooltip on top">Tooltip on top</button>
</div>