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  • February 10, 2025
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Does anyone know the simplest 'html view' code for hover and/or hyperlinked tooltips in Qualtrics question and multiple choice answers? I am also not sure if something needs to be in the survey's ‘Custom CSS’ box in Look and Feel > Style. For instance, I want when someone hovers over “Try this one out.” for this text to appear: “I am a tooltip that provides more details about the term you clicked on.” 

I read all the other tooltip posts on here, Youtube, and asked Qualtrics support and could not get an answer that worked. Many thanks!

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Hi ​@cmarieknaff,
For applying an hyperlink to the text displayed on the option choice you can simply select the text and click on the icon below, paste your link and you are good to go! 


The above code did not worked in the Question text is because the text was in the html tag, once you click on the question, on the right side you’ll find “HTML view” click on it and then paste the code, this would work.

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Hi ​@cmarieknaff,
You can put the below code in the Rich Content Editor of your option choice. If my understanding is correct the text in the “” will be shown when you hover above the text [Try this one out]. This should work for you😄

<span title="I am a tooltip that provides more details about the term you clicked on.">Try this one out.</span>


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  • February 10, 2025

Hi ​@nikamshubham_73. Thank you very much! That worked in the multiple choice answers. Do you know how to make the “Try this one out.” text blue and underlined/hyperlinked so that they know to hover over that in the first place?

Also, what about in the question text itself? I tried the above code but it appears as “<span title="I am a tooltip that provides more details about the term you clicked on.">Try this one out.</span>.” Thanks again!


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  • February 10, 2025

Hi ​@cmarieknaff,
For applying an hyperlink to the text displayed on the option choice you can simply select the text and click on the icon below, paste your link and you are good to go! 


The above code did not worked in the Question text is because the text was in the html tag, once you click on the question, on the right side you’ll find “HTML view” click on it and then paste the code, this would work.


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  • February 10, 2025

Hi ​@nikamshubham_73 Thank you so much. That worked for the question text! And my apologies for being unclear. I don’t actually want to hyperlink, but I want the “Try this one out.” text to look hyperlinked, aka blue and underlined, or some other way to stand out so that they know to hover over the text because we are telling them, “To use a tooltip, simply hover over the hyperlinked text and the tooltip pop-up will appear.” Thank you again!


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  • February 10, 2025

Sorry ​@nikamshubham_73. It’s truly a Monday morning! Duh. I just can change the color and underline in Rich Content Editor and change the instructions to: “To use a tooltip, simply hover over the blue underlined text and the tooltip pop-up will appear.” Thanks again!!


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