🆚 Floating UI vs. Popper
- 📈 Popper is much more popular than Floating UI.
- 🌍 Popper is more popular in all countries.
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About
Floating UI is an open-source JavaScript library and successor to
Popper for creating interactive floating elements such as tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns.
It provides a modular middleware system for shifting, flipping, and resizing elements to avoid viewport collisions, supports vanilla JavaScript, React, React Native, and
Vue, and offers React hooks for building accessible floating components.
Popper is an open-source JavaScript library for positioning and displaying floating UI elements such as tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns.
It calculates the placement of these elements relative to a reference element using a modifier-based architecture, supports automatic flipping and overflow prevention, and has been superseded by
Floating UI.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⬆️ 205th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 211st most popular in the United States in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 214th most popular in the United Kingdom in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Rwanda in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Nepal in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Jordan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Qatar in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Mongolia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

