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🔗 Linked issue

Resolves #6787

❓ Type of change

  • 📖 Documentation (updates to the documentation or readme)
  • 🐞 Bug fix (a non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • 👌 Enhancement (improving an existing functionality)
  • ✨ New feature (a non-breaking change that adds functionality)
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📚 Description

An item's tooltip property was ignored in vertical orientation unless the menu was collapsed:

<UTooltip v-else-if="(orientation === 'vertical' && collapsed && (!!tooltip || !!item.tooltip)) || (orientation === 'horizontal' && !!item.tooltip)">

So a sidebar could not explain a single item — why it is disabled, or gated behind an upgrade — unless the whole menu happened to be collapsed. #6787 asks for exactly that, and there is no workaround through the items API.

This looks like an asymmetry rather than a deliberate restriction, because the surrounding documentation already describes the behaviour this PR implements:

  • The item prop's own JSDoc says "In horizontal orientation, works on any item" — only vertical carried the collapsed condition.
  • The docs note already claims "The tooltip property on an item will always display a tooltip regardless of the global tooltip prop."

This PR honours item.tooltip in every orientation and collapsed state:

<UTooltip v-else-if="!!item.tooltip || (orientation === 'vertical' && collapsed && !!tooltip)">

Exactly one case changes — vertical + expanded + item.tooltip — and every other combination evaluates identically, which is why no existing snapshot moved.

The global tooltip prop deliberately stays scoped to collapsed menus. It mirrors each item's own label, which is only worth surfacing while labels are hidden; applying it to an expanded menu would add a tooltip that just repeats the visible text.

<UNavigationMenu
  orientation="vertical"
  :items="[
    { label: 'Dashboard', icon: 'i-lucide-house' },
    { label: 'Reports', icon: 'i-lucide-chart-column', disabled: true, tooltip: { text: 'Upgrade to Pro' } }
  ]"
/>
Case Before After
vertical, expanded, item.tooltip no tooltip tooltip
vertical, collapsed, item.tooltip tooltip unchanged
vertical, collapsed, global tooltip tooltip on every item unchanged
vertical, expanded, global tooltip no tooltip unchanged
horizontal, item.tooltip tooltip unchanged

Docs and both JSDoc blocks are updated to match.

🧪 Testing

  • Added a tooltip block to test/components/NavigationMenu.spec.ts covering each orientation/collapsed combination, the global prop staying collapsed-only, custom tooltip text overriding the label, and the label fallback.
  • Verified in a real browser against the playground with Playwright: hovering a vertical, expanded item flips the trigger to data-state="delayed-open", wires aria-describedby to the tooltip content, and renders the tooltip with its kbds. The collapsed case still behaves identically.

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  • I have linked an issue or discussion.
  • I have updated the documentation accordingly.

Note

A parent item renders an accordion trigger, and TooltipTrigger merges onto that same element, so the tooltip's data-state overwrites the accordion's. The accordion still works — aria-expanded and the item's data-state are correct, and the chevron still rotates through linkTrailing's own data-state — but link: data-[state=open]:text-highlighted will not apply to a parent item carrying a tooltip. This is pre-existing rather than introduced here: horizontal parent items with a tooltip already wrap NavigationMenuTrigger the same way. Since the combination was previously impossible in vertical, nothing regresses.

An item's `tooltip` property was ignored in `vertical` orientation unless the
menu was `collapsed`, even though it already applied to any item in
`horizontal` orientation. Honour it in every orientation and collapsed state
so a single item can explain itself, for example why it is disabled or gated
behind an upgrade. The global `tooltip` prop stays scoped to collapsed menus,
where the labels it mirrors are the ones actually hidden.

Closes nuxt#6787
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Walkthrough

Navigation menu item-level tooltips now render in any orientation and collapse state. They override the global tooltip setting and support disabled or upgrade-gated items. Global tooltips still render only in vertically collapsed menus. Documentation and component tests cover visibility, content behavior, scoping, and accordion interactions.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2972b

A collapsed vertical parent with child navigation and an item-specific tooltip may show the popover but omit the tooltip text intended to explain that item. This is a bounded merge-readiness issue requiring explicit owner follow-up.

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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the NavigationMenu enhancement and the new item tooltip behavior when the menu is expanded.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the requested tooltip behavior, implementation scope, documentation updates, and test coverage.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #6787 by displaying item tooltips in vertical menus when they are not collapsed.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code, documentation, and tests are directly related to the linked issue and stated pull request objectives.
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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
test/components/NavigationMenu.spec.ts (1)

175-182: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test global and item tooltip precedence together.

The test only verifies that item.tooltip.text overrides the label fallback. It does not pass global tooltip props. If the merge order at Line 458 in src/runtime/components/NavigationMenu.vue changes, global properties can override item properties and this suite still passes.

Add a collapsed vertical case with different global and item text values. Assert that the item value renders.

As per coding guidelines, component tests should cover props.

Proposed test
+    test('gives item tooltip props priority over global tooltip props', async () => {
+      const wrapper = await renderMenu({
+        orientation: 'vertical',
+        collapsed: true,
+        tooltip: { text: 'Global tooltip', open: true, portal: false },
+        items: [{ ...plain, tooltip: { text: 'Item tooltip', open: true, portal: false } }]
+      })
+
+      expect(wrapper.text()).toContain('Item tooltip')
+      expect(wrapper.text()).not.toContain('Global tooltip')
+    })
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In `@test/components/NavigationMenu.spec.ts` around lines 175 - 182, Add a
collapsed vertical NavigationMenu test that supplies distinct global tooltip
text and item tooltip text, then assert the rendered content uses the item text.
Reuse the existing renderMenu setup and tooltip fixture near the “an item
tooltip overrides the label as content” test, preserving coverage of
item-over-global tooltip precedence.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/runtime/components/NavigationMenu.vue`:
- Line 458: The NavigationMenu item rendering branches should preserve tooltip
behavior when a vertically collapsed item with children also enables a popover.
Update the relevant popover and tooltip rendering logic around the UPopover
branch and tooltip condition so both overlays compose, or consistently enforce
an explicitly documented precedence rule; add coverage for an item with
children, collapsed true, tooltip, and popover.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@test/components/NavigationMenu.spec.ts`:
- Around line 175-182: Add a collapsed vertical NavigationMenu test that
supplies distinct global tooltip text and item tooltip text, then assert the
rendered content uses the item text. Reuse the existing renderMenu setup and
tooltip fixture near the “an item tooltip overrides the label as content” test,
preserving coverage of item-over-global tooltip precedence.
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