Hyperlink in bulleted list: hover state not working

Hello. I've seen previous discussions of non-working hover states for hyperlinked text, one of which was apparently solved by a Storyline update a couple years ago. I've got a list of links at the bottom of a scrolling text field, and one of them stubbornly refuses to show its hover state--the second one in the list. The rest of the hyperlinks work fine.

I deleted the bullet and retyped the text, then applied the hyperlink but that didn't work. So I deleted the bullet and the one above it, retyped both, applied hyperlinks and the hover works on the first item but not the second.

The first bullet appears to have had its link cut in half. I don't understand how that happened, but I can live with it since both halves are linked to the same web page.

Is there a way to get at the code behind the scenes to see what's going on?