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    Quick Start
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    The following quick start guide is intended to get you up and running with the Tooltip control. In this quick start, you'll start with creating a new application, add the Tooltip control to it, set its target element, distance from the target element, position and add content to the Tooltip.

    Tooltips in Blazor

    Create a Blazor App

    1. In Visual Studio, select Create a new project from the Get started pane.
    2. In the Create a new project dialog, select Blazor WebAssembly App, and click Next. Alternatively, you can also create a Blazor Server App.
      Note: Blazor Server App or server-side app can be created using the Blazor Server App template. For more details, see Blazor Server topic under Blazor Project Types.
    3. In the Configure your new project dialog, provide name of the project you want to create in the Project name field and location for the project in the Location field. Click Next.
    4. In the Additional information dialog, select the target framework from the Framework dropdown, if required and click Create. By default, the selected framework is .NET 6.0.
      A new client-side Blazor app is created.

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    Configure References

    1. In the Solution Explorer, right click Dependencies and select Manage NuGet Packages.
    2. In NuGet Package Manager, select nuget.org as the Package source.
    3. Search for C1.Blazor.Input package and click Install.
    4. Navigate to the wwwroot, open index.html file.
    5. Register the client resources by adding the following lines of code to the <head> tag.
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      <link rel="stylesheet" href="/_content/C1.Blazor.Core/styles.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/_content/C1.Blazor.Input/styles.css" />
    6. Add the following code to the <body> tag.
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      <script src="/_content/C1.Blazor.Core/scripts.js"></script>
<script src="/_content/C1.Blazor.Input/scripts.js"></script>
    7. Right click on Pages folder, click Add | Razor Component to add a new Razor page and then provide a name, say TooltipQuickStart.
    8. Add the required directives to initialize and use the Tooltip control in the new Razor page.
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      @using C1.Blazor.Input

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    Configure the Tooltip control

    Display tooltip for a Button using the following code wherein the content of the Tooltip is set using Content property of the C1Tooltip class. In addition, tooltips distance from the Button is set using Gap property of the C1Tooltip class and the position of the tooltip is set with respect to the button using the Position property. The Position property sets position of the tooltip using the PopupPosition enumeration.

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    <button id="btn" style="border-color:gray; border-width:1px; border-radius:5px;">Hover me!!</button>

<C1Tooltip Target="btn" Position="PopupPosition.Right" Gap="25" 
    Style="@("background-color:AliceBlue;color:Blue;")">
    <Content>This is a tooltip</Content>
</C1Tooltip>

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    Build and Run the Project

    1. Click Build | Build Solution to build the project.
    2. Press F5 to run the project.

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