Bug: Button Tooltips in the Icons Page is hidden due to `Overflow: hidden` in the Parent container
Author: canalealCreated Nov 5, 2023Updated Sep 14, 2026
Labelsfontawesome.com
Bug description
- Open the font awesome website and select
iconsin the navigation bar. - Search for any icon using the search bar.
- In the section where you can select the grid styling (compact, grid, list) a small tooltip arrow is shown.
- The button tool tip arrow does not display properly as the parent container has the style attribute
overflow: hidden
To fix this bug, remove the overflow: hidden styling on the parent container element. The styling is added to the element as an inline style.
Reproducible test case
I'm not too sure how I would do this this. Apologies.
Screenshots
Hover over the button to show the tooltip.
Parent component with the overflow hidden style.
Tooltip properly shows when Overflow hidden is removed from the parent component.
The issue also exists in v5.15.4 of Font Awesome.
Font Awesome version
v6.0.0, v5.0.0
Serving
Other (as specified in the bug description)
Implementation
Other (as specified in the bug description)
Browser and Operating System
- Firefox 119.0 (64-bit) on Windows 11
- Chrome 119 windows 11
Note, this issue is not related to the OS or Browser.
Web bug report checklist
- I have included a test case because my odds go way up that the team can fix this when I do
- I have searched for existing issues and to the best of my knowledge this is not a duplicate
Source: FortAwesome/Font-Awesome