# Change hover tooltip background color

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/change-hover-tooltip-background-color/2095>\
**Category:** plotly.js\
**Created:** [September 13, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/change-hover-tooltip-background-color/2095 "2016-09-13T15:21:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![duyentnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@duyentnguyen](https://community.plotly.com/u/duyentnguyen)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/change-hover-tooltip-background-color/2095/1 "2016-09-13T15:21:55Z")

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I saw that there’s a way to at least customize the native tooltip font size and style using CSS. Is it possible to do something similar and change the tooltip background color?