Hyperlink Hover Highlight Color

Hi Ashley,

Thanks but my hyperlinks don't highlight the whole link when they have a line break. The highlight appears only on the half-link you're hovering over. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

Hi Sarah.  Thanks for the screenshot!  We found an issue where hyperlinks that span more than one line of text were not carrying the highlight with them.  This behavior was happening in both Storyline 360 and 3.

I'm going to tag this discussion in our report so we can update you where with new information.

It's good to hear that the issue with the split lines will be addressed.

I also agree with Sarah's point about hyperlink hover colours. Our hyperlinks sometimes appear on both dark and light backgrounds, so a single hyperlink hover setting doesn't work well. I think control over hyperlink hover colours is an important feature for Storyline users.

I am also having the problem of the highlight color being black and opaque. This happens on one slide of my course, but it works correctly on other slides. The slides are all using the same theme, and the font color is the same as well. 

For the problematic hyperlink, when I try to fix it by adding a word on the same line (which did not help) the part of the hyperlink on the second line is not highlighted.

Hi Anne,

I'm sorry you're seeing some oddness with this hover color too - but I took a look at earlier discussions here and it doesn't seem that we've been able to recreate it in the latest versions of Storyline.  Can you tell me more about how you've set up your slides and hyperlink?

Detailing the exact steps and sharing a copy of your .story file may be just the clue we need to track this issue down! 

Color management in Articulate Storyline 360 has got to be scrapped and started over. I cannot change my hyperlink text color. If I select grey, it goes to FULL BLACK. Then in trying to figure it out, I have 75 custom color themes and no way to edit or delete them. Also, please don't label something "Text/Background - Dark 1". What does that even mean and what does it affect?? It's been a month and I still have not figured out how to get rid of the lavender color on hover for my hyperlinks. I just want to change it to a light grey. Please help keep a former graphic designer from losing his mind. :)

Hey Ryon,

Thanks for reaching out and sharing your experience. 

I see that you've reached out to our support team as well and our support engineers are taking a look.

You should be hearing from someone soon :)

Hey David,

I really appreciate your candid insight -- thanks for adding your voice to this discussion. You've made some excellent points, and I'll be sure to share this with my team. If we make any changes to color management in Storyline in the future, we'll let you know!

I would like to suggest that the hover not be built in, but customizable as a state, as we have on everything else. Keeping this built in is an eye sore. It doesn't matter what I'm doing in this thread, my hover is still a very ugly lavender color that I refuse to leave in an otherwise nice looking course. 

Just chiming in.  I am having the same issue where, I have one text box, it is a bulleted list and it is a table of contents.  I think the hyperlinks might have originally been made inPPT.  But I am getting the issue where the default highlight, rather than be transparent, an opaque box is showing up when mouseing over the hyper links and obscuring the text.  The first link in the list works fine it shows up as a transparent box, the other 3 hyperlinks in the list show up opaque boxes when moused over.  Chalk this up as just another fundamentally broken feature of articulate storyline that you can't use.

Hi Brian,

With your permission, I'd be happy to take a look at your project file to investigate what's happening with those hyperlinks.

You can share it publicly here, or send to our Support Team by uploading it here.  Either way, we'll delete it when done troubleshooting.

Can we add Hyperlink color to Font? 

Thanks for your suggestion and a great image for an example of the potential UI placement. I've submitted this to our team on your behalf.

Quick note to say using the hotspot workaround is good if your hyperlink is a short word and all on one line. If your link is a long URL or sentence and wraps around on two lines, you might have hover area over no text. 

I have built a table of contents, white text on dark blue background. When I hover over the text, the text is unreadable as the hover state does not contrast with the text well enough. Is it correct that the hover background colour cannot be configured? Is this still a limitation in 360?

Normal: http://prntscr.com/mkvy45

Hover: http://prntscr.com/mkvy9b

Thanks,
Sam

Hi Sam, 

The hover color for hyperlinked text is a highlight of the color defined in the theme of your course in Storyline 360.

You can read about it in our documentation here.

Thanks Leslie!

I had this problem also, but not on all slides in my project, just random ones, and also in some slides, the highlight took over an entire paragraph of text. I didn't want to change the colors because everyone on this project is using the same color theme. I put white highlighter over the hyperlink, then used the space bar and the backspace key to go over the areas that did not have text, but were still in purple. That worked. There must be some extra coding that was copied in. I tried removing a hyperlink, typing it in word pad, and pasting it from word pad, but it didnt' fix it.