How To Add and Style Help or Hover Text?

  • colehollandcollege
    Asked on January 28, 2015 at 5:40 PM

    I would like to add a box that displays a ? that when you hover over the ? it pops up a box to reveal text that goes away when you no longer hover. The ? could also be clickable to reveal the text.

  • colehollandcollege
    Replied on January 28, 2015 at 6:25 PM

    Except it would be nice if you could format the text or even place an image in the hover text, right now it's just plain text.

  • colehollandcollege
    Replied on January 28, 2015 at 6:26 PM

    I posted that I found this as a "Hover Text" option, except it would be nice if you could format the text or even place an image in the hover text, right now it's just plain text.

  • Charlie
    Replied on January 28, 2015 at 9:25 PM

    Hi,

    You can use custom CSS codes and place it inside the Form Designer->CSS tab to style the hint or help text.

    Here's a demo form that I made: http://form.jotformpro.com/form/50278487675975 

    If you hover of the name field you'll see my hover text formatted with a different style.

    To design yours, here's a quick guide:

    This is the custom CSS code that I have, you can follow the schema or the elements that I use.

    .form-description {

        width: 200px;

        height: 100px;

        border: 4px solid #34495e;

        background-image: url('http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2014/02/gaia_calibration_image/14263602-2-eng-GB/Gaia_calibration_image_focuson.jpg');

    }

    /*inside the form description*/

     

    .form-description-arrow {

     border-color: transparent #34495e transparent transparent;

    }

     

    .form-description-arrow-small {

       

    }

    .form-description-content {

        color: white;

    }

     

    All the bold text are the elements you need to know to design the whole hint text.

    .form-description - This is the main element that wraps the hover text, you can adjust size of the hover text here or add a background image as the design.

    .form-description-arrow - This is the main arrow pointing to the left side where the field is, basically this is just the arrow you see at the left.

    .form-description-arrow-small - This is the small arrow placed just above the main arrow.

    .form-description-content - This is the wrapper or main element that holds the content, you can also style the background of this or adjust the fonts styling.

    Here's a screenshot of my Form Designer:

    How To Add and Style Help or Hover Text? Image 1 Screenshot 20

     

    I hope this helps. Do let us know if you need more assistance on this.

    Thank you.