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How Do We Add Title Text to Hyperlinks?
Question is in the title. I'm working on a client project and need to edit the title text on hyperlinks, but I can't seem to figure it out. Does anyone know how this is accomplished in Storyline?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
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Hi, Paul!
Good news! I know how to edit the text on hyperlinks! Here are the steps!
- Create a textbox
- Type what you'd like the text to say
- Select the text
- Click Hyperlink in the Insert tab
- When the Trigger Wizard opens, type the URL in the Action section.
Here is an image of what Trigger Wizard will look like!
Notice the URL you'll link to is in the Action section and the text you'll see on the screen is in the When section. I used ESPN as an example. I hope this helps you!
Thanks for reaching out!
Hi, John, thank you for your reply! Unfortunately, this doesn't answer my question. I'm trying to find out how to edit the title attribute for a link, not the text of the link itself.
In HTML, one would write it like this:
<a href="https://www.google.com" title="This link will take you to the Google home page"> Google </a>
This functions similarly to alt text in images, in that when the user hovers over the link, the browser displays the text.
Any ideas? Thanks again for your reply.
Thanks for your reply! I do know how to add hyperlinks, I'm trying to figure out how to edit the title attribute of the hyperlink.
Have you considered using a hover state for John’s text box?
Hi, Walt, thanks for your reply. Yes, I've considered hover states, and I've considered hotspots as well. Unfortunately, the project I'm working on has hundreds of slides, and it seems like a lot of wasted time to create custom hover states for every link—especially when the same effect can be achieved automatically in-browser with a title attribute.
>in-browser
the problem is - storyline don't use html <a href> with <title> for hyperlinksexample
result in the DOM
no html with the normal html features
two invisible rectrangles (link in two lines) as overlay with two CLICK event
the two texts and the two lines for underline are in another <g> tag
very strangeWow, thanks for digging into this, Jürgen. That's unfortunate. I suppose this is the price we pay for having Storyline create everything under-the-hood for us.
I appreciate your input.
hopefully the course does not have to be translated, then the manually set hotspots would have to be placed for each language again
