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📑 Summary

Prevents Mermaid's shared HTML tooltip from adding document overflow while it is inactive.

PR #7052 moved several diagram tooltips to the shared createTooltip() helper and styled the body-level tooltip inline. The empty tooltip has 2px padding and a 1px border, but no initial coordinates. Its static position can therefore be at the end of the body, extending the document by 6px even while its opacity is zero. Because the tooltip is a body-level singleton, that overflow can persist after the diagram is no longer visible.

This change:

  • initializes the inactive tooltip at the document origin;
  • returns it to the origin and clears its contents after the existing fade-out transition; and
  • applies the shared hide behavior to flowchart, class, state, and agentflow tooltips.

Active tooltips retain their existing coordinate calculation. The singleton remains reusable, absolute-positioned, invisible, and non-interactive while dormant.

I searched the existing Mermaid issues and pull requests for mermaidTooltip, createTooltip, scrollbar/overflow, and bottom-of-page tooltip reports. I found the original placement report #6810 and its fix #7052, but no report or patch for this overflow regression.

📏 Design Decisions

  • Keep the singleton rather than removing it on mouseout, since event handlers retain and reuse its selection.
  • Reset only after the fade completes. A new D3 transition from another hover interrupts the pending transition, so an active tooltip is not reset by a previous mouseout.
  • Clear dormant content so a long tooltip cannot create horizontal overflow at (0, 0) on a narrow viewport.

🧪 Testing

  • Added jsdom regression coverage for initial placement and post-fade cleanup.
  • vitest run packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.spec.ts (34 tests passed)
  • ESLint on all touched TypeScript files (no errors; existing warnings only)
  • Full monorepo build passed.

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  • Added a patch changeset

Summary

  • Initialize the shared HTML tooltip at the document origin to prevent an inactive tooltip from extending the document.
  • Add hideTooltip to fade out the tooltip, then clear its contents and reset its position to (0, 0).
  • Use the shared hide behavior for flowchart, class, state, and agentflow tooltips.
  • Interrupt pending tooltip transitions on hover so a previous fade-out does not hide a newly active tooltip.
  • Add jsdom tests for initial position, tooltip positioning, and reset after mouseout.
  • Add a patch changeset for mermaid.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Adelöw <freben@spotify.com>
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The change adds shared tooltip cleanup that fades tooltips, clears their content, and resets their position after mouseout. Agentflow, class, flowchart, and state diagram handlers use this function and interrupt active transitions before fading in. Flowchart tests cover tooltip positioning and cleanup.

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Tooltip cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared tooltip lifecycle
packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/common/svgDrawCommon.ts, packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.spec.ts, .changeset/quiet-tooltips-rest.md
New tooltip elements start at (0, 0). The shared cleanup function fades tooltips, clears their content, and resets their position. Flowchart tests cover initial position, hover placement, mouseout cleanup, and a new hover during fade-out. The changeset declares a patch release.
Diagram tooltip handlers
packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/agentflow/agentflowDb.ts, packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/class/classDb.ts, packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.ts, packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/state/stateDb.ts
Mouseover handlers interrupt active transitions before fading in. Mouseout handlers call the shared cleanup function.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: knsv

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 3aba5

A new hover safely supersedes a pending hide, so the change is mergeable. The flowchart test could be tightened to exercise an overlapping hover.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3aba5

The shared tooltip now returns to an empty, off-interaction state after use. The reviewed changes do not establish a new security exposure, though simultaneous diagrams can still interfere with one another’s tooltip display.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • observed — The changed handlers affect a body-level tooltip reused within the document, rather than a separate tooltip owned by each diagram.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — In the inspected content path, AgentFlow and FlowDB sanitize stored tooltip text and apply DOMPurify at the HTML insertion point. Their changed lines affect transition timing and cleanup, not those content controls.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing inactive tooltips from causing document overflow.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the problem, implementation, design decisions, testing, and changelog impact. It omits the template's full task checklist and does not include an issue reference, but these om…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed No active directly linked issue remains. Issue #7052 is closed and supplies historical context only. No linked-issue coding requirement applies to this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The tooltip origin reset, shared hide helper, transition interruption, diagram integrations, regression tests, and patch changeset support the stated tooltip overflow and stale-transition fix. No unre…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 6…
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Review comments at @packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/common/svgDrawCommon.ts:
- Line 168: In the flowchart, class, state, and agentflow mouseover handlers,
interrupt the tooltip element’s active D3 transition before writing new tooltip
content or position. Keep the existing fade-out completion behavior that clears
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packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.spec.ts (1)

83-83: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Start the second hover before the hide transition ends.

hideTooltip uses a 500 ms transition and clears the tooltip in its end callback. The test waits 505 ms before the second mouseover, so it does not exercise cleanup during the new hover. Start the second hover earlier, then assert after the original 500 ms deadline.

A browser-only test is not required for this coverage. The test checks transition timing and cleanup, not rendered pixels.

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-    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 505));
+    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 400));

     secondNode.dispatchEvent(new window.MouseEvent('mouseover', { bubbles: true }));
-    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 40));
+    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 150));
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Review comment at @packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.spec.ts at
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Update the hover timing in the test around the secondNode mouseover so the
second hover begins before hideTooltip’s 500 ms transition ends, then wait until
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