Glossary Term Tooltip

An inline defined term that reveals its definition on hover and focus with a link through to the full glossary entry, so a reader who knows the jargon never breaks stride and one who doesn’t gets the answer without leaving the paragraph. Keyboard-operable and dismissible with Escape, never a bare title tooltip.

Long-form · Astro · Subscription · commercial licence · v1.0.1 · updated 2026-10-15 · Live demo

Install

velocityx add glossary-term-tooltip

Subscription component. Run velocityx login with your key first — get one.

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import GlossaryTermTooltip from '../components/velocity/glossary-term-tooltip/GlossaryTermTooltip.astro';
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<GlossaryTermTooltip />

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
term	string	—	Short label shown in the panel header, e.g. an acronym. Defaults to the slotted text.
definition	string	required	Full definition shown in the panel body.
href	string	—	Link to the full glossary entry. Omit to render a definition-only tooltip.
linkLabel	string	'Read full definition'	Label for the glossary link.

Files written

velocityx drops these into your project:

• components/velocity/glossary-term-tooltip/GlossaryTermTooltip.astro

Peer dependencies

None.

Theming

Colours come from the primary-* / accent-* Tailwind scales, so this drops into a project that is not Velocity without dragging our brand in. Install the contract once:

velocityx theme

Then set your whole brand in one place — raw RGB channels, not hex (a hex here silently breaks every opacity variant):

:root {
  --vx-brand: custom;
  --vx-primary-600: 220 38 38;
}

There is no component-level font-family anywhere in the library — your font cascade wins.

Licence

Commercial, for the duration of an active Velocity X subscription. The source is served by the licence-gated endpoint, never by the public CDN.