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My hover states are overriding my selected states
I have a fill for the "hover" state. When I click ("down"), it shows the fill and an outline, and it works as intended. When I release the click, it should now show my "selected" state (only the outline). However, it instead goes back to my "hover" state (until I move the cursor away from the object, which is poor user experience).
Please see the attachment for reference. How do I get the "selected" state to show rather than reverting back to "hover" when I've already made my selection?
Thank you!
This is designed, expected behavior. Hover is the priority state. What you do with it is a design consideration.
It works as intended in this example someone else posted. The selected overrides the hover.
Try this:
- go inside the selected state
- fill the text with white
- cut and paste it
That should work because you're inserting a shape over the original object
Hi Tom,
Thank you for your reply.
I'm not quite following what you're asking me to do. Can you please break it down a bit more?
Here's a quick video to show what to do and why.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/77a1e547-fe76-4af8-872e-18197206322d/review
Hi Tom,
Thanks for the thorough explanation. I now understand how the example I posted works – with shapes on top for the Selected state.
Attached is my modified version of my slide – is this what you meant? It’s not quite what I was hoping for (which isn’t possible considering hover can’t be overridden), but it’s serviceable. I think Storyline could benefit from a “Hover + Selected” state or something along those lines.
On a separate note, I notice that my text wiggles/moves a pixel or 2 on hover (even though the states were copy/pasted from each other). It looks sort of clunky/amateur. I’m not sure why it’s doing that, although this seems to happen on all my Storyline projects.
before:
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/9a5c7d61-6263-4d02-99f5-a06bcefc3156/review
convert the border of the "normal" state from none to color white
after:
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/0cd5a299-d225-411d-acf5-9f4af34e2a63/reviewnow all 4 states have the same outer width and outer height
Hi Brenton!
I see you connected with my teammate, John Carlo, in a support case. That was a great call! We'll continue the conversation there.
