# Vega Lite tooltip

**URL:** <https://forums.losant.com/t/vega-lite-tooltip/2477>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** dashboard\
**Created:** [December 16, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/vega-lite-tooltip/2477 "2019-12-16T15:28:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![JuliaKempf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.losant.com/juliakempf/32/2446_2.png) [@JuliaKempf](https://forums.losant.com/u/JuliaKempf)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/vega-lite-tooltip/2477/6 "2019-12-17T16:11:23Z")

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Hi Lars,

I messed with this for a good amount of time and believe you have some incorrect syntax in your configuration. I would recommend checking out the following articles:

> **[Tooltip](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/docs/tooltip.html#channel)**
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> Vega-Lite - a high-level grammar for statistical graphics. Vega-Lite provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis, comparable to ggplot or Tableau, that generates complete Vega specifications. Vega-Lite specifications consist of simple...

> **[Tooltip](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/docs/tooltip.html#plugin)**
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> Vega-Lite - a high-level grammar for statistical graphics. Vega-Lite provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis, comparable to ggplot or Tableau, that generates complete Vega specifications. Vega-Lite specifications consist of simple...

See the last example on this page.

The following is an example from the Forums:

> [@Custom Charts not rendering tooltips on mobile devices](https://forums.losant.com/t/custom-charts-not-rendering-tooltips-on-mobile-devices/2192):
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> I’ve been noticing some problems with displaying Vega-lite tooltips when using a touchscreen device (iphone or iphone) to view the dashboard. There is some sample code: { "$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v4.json", "description": "A simple bar chart with embedded data.", "data": { "values": [ {"a": "A", "b": 28}, {"a": "B", "b": 55}, {"a": "C", "b": 43}, {"a": "D", "b": 91}, {"a": "E", "b": 81}, {"a": "F", "b": 53}, {"a": "G", "b": 19}, {"a": "…

I would recommend checking out these resources, then, should you still not be successful, reading through Vega-Lite’s [GitHub issues](https://github.com/vega/vega-lite/issues) and opening one if you do not see it already.

Thanks!  
Julia

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