Questions tagged [hover]
Hover is an interaction state where a pointer (usually a mouse cursor) is held over an item to perform an action or display information.
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Hover styling for non-clickable elements?
In our system, currently we have good styling and effects for buttons, for example submit button, cancel button etc.
Now we have a different element. Let's say it is a summary tag element. Which acts ...
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What's the purpose of this flashlight-like effect in windows callendar?
Is there any specific reason for windows callendar to have this flashlight-like hover effect?
If anything it seems to me to be distracting by spreading the area of your current mouse position. Is it ...
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Hover vs click on mega menu
Now implementing a new mega-menu. The current mega-menu's submenu options are shown on user cursor hover. Would a more explicit action like mouse click be more appropriate for this (like the example ...
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Large Hover Menu/Navigation Menu - Categorically Bad UX?
Due to feedback from a handful of customers that did not understand what our menu icons meant, a hamburger icon was removed from our navigation menu, this hamburger icon was used to expand the ...
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Allowing both hover and select state on a section / component
Do you think allowing both hover and select on a component makes sense in the bellow context?
The tool is a drag & drop application builder (UI builder).
Configuring objects (sections in the page ...
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In Responsive Design, how do you trigger Tooltips? mouse hover isn't there anymore
A tiny disclaimer, not looking for tooltip alternative for mobile as in another UI Pattern, i'm looking for a different interaction that could trigger the tooltip, i hope this makes it clear.
The ...
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Vice versa colors for on and off hover of buttons [closed]
How should we choose the color for buttons is there a should always be a dark and light colour or two differed colors. What will be the best strategy for choosing colours.
And is it should always be ...
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Tooltip with a link on it (displayed on hover or on click)?
I have a tooltip with a link on it.
What is the best practice of displaying this tooltip: on click or on hover?
I will still need a clicked version for tablet. Should the popup have a close icon in ...
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Will hover will be extinct? Any research or case studies done on frequency of hover in desktop
I am typing this on my mobile so let me keep it short. I am talking about contents that is revealed on hover in desktop. So what we do in mobile UI is we make it visible at first sight. I want to know ...
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Hovering Navigation Arrows
Is there any modern and accessible approach to implementing "hovering navigation arrows"?
I was given a website layout to implement which features "hovering navigation arrows" to navigate to the ...
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Preference: Info-tips (info tooltips) or stationary info-areas for Scatter Plots?
I've seen two different ways to display information about a point on an scatter plot
A tooltip (info tip) which appears next to your cursor
When you hover over a point, information will display in ...
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What's the approppriate term for the window under the mouse cursor?
In an app I'm writing, the user has the choice to apply a given action to either the "focused window", the "topmost window" or the "window that's being pointed by the mouse".
Is there a way to refer ...
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How do I make it obvious that a button is hoverable?
I need to hide away a piece of text that explains a useful part about using the UI for an app I am making (out of space) and a tooltip will work fine. My concern is that if people see a button they ...
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What are the rules MacOs use to determine when to use hover or not on interactive elements?
So, on the web, designers use hover effects (for example a grey button becomes lighter when my pointer is above it) to signal affordance/interactivity for pretty much all types of controls. But on ...
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Shopping cart interaction: how should the user check out?
On our webshop we have a shopping cart icon in the menu bar, that on hover over shows the user what they have in ther cart. Observations in user testing showed that we had a confusing interaction with ...
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Should a button with a dropdown always have a click action?
I have one button that offers the user up to ~10 choices. The button label says 'apply as' and the dropdown lists all the possible choices. I have multiple choices on how to design this.
As a hover, ...
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Background color when hovering datagrid row
My question is pretty simple. In your opinion, does changing the background color of the hovered row in the datagrid is a plus for the user - or a distraction that should be discarded? All rows / ...
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What is the proper way to make 2 lines of hover dropdown menus not interfere with each other?
For an example of this menu, check this quick code snippet I made on jsFiddle:
https://jsfiddle.net/27w3y6dh/
Our own menu is somewhat more complex, but suffers from the same issue. Additional ...
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Should a dropdown list be closed when mouse leaves?
Should a dropdown list be automatically closed when you leave current object and navigate to another, or should it remain opened until you open next dropdown list?
Dropdown closed when mouse leaves
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Should I show a row icon on hover?
I have several rows of content, with small font icons to the right of each row for actions to take.
I feel these icons clutter up the look of the page, so I am considering a default opacity of 0 on ...
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What is the difference between a mouseover and a hoverover? [closed]
I have seen both a 'mouseover' and a 'hoverover' referring to the same thing - but it is not clear if there is a difference.
Is there a functional difference between the two terms, or are they ...
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How should a mouse-over-for-keyboard-shortcuts be designed?
Our toolbar has a keyboard icon on the right, which, when hovered over, displays a large keyboard reference tooltip. Clicking the icon opens the settings' dialog on the tab for keyboard bindings.
My ...
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How would you show separate items (products) that are on a single photo?
Let's say we have an image of a man with cool hat, t-shirt, boots, etc. The idea is to show these items as products, so you can find and buy them if you like.
At the moment I see two ways of ...
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Tooltip CSS cursor
I am at a bit of a loss as to what cursor I should be using for tooltips that have no click through behaviour. I have a hover only tooltip are I currently use the CSS cursor:
cursor: pointer
However ...
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What should the hover state of an outline button look like?
Me and a friend were having a discussion on button design and came across the hover-state of the outline buttons of Marvel.
I believe this is not the right approach as an outline button is designed ...
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How should a coloured dropdown be styled using Google Material?
I am working on a project which is using Google Material UI. I have a set of production statuses that need to be displayed - they are selectable from a list but I am not sure what that list should ...
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Can an image overlay be too obstructive?
For this question lets consider only no-touch devices and lets assume it is alright to hide that text.
It is common, specially on grid layouts, to display image overlays with different levels of ...
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Design for hovering over tile [closed]
I'm creating a portfolio for my websites. I'm going to have tiles that show my work. When you hover over a tile, it will show a title, description, and a preview button. What's the best layout to show ...
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How can I display tool tips on a touchscreen or is there a better way? [duplicate]
On a PC with a mouse one would use the hover state. On touchscreens what's the best way to provide this kind of information?
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Image Blocks with Sub Navigation on Hover
I'm working on a site that has a bunch of categories which I'd like to display graphically on the homepage to help the user navigate to the information most relevant to them.
Because there are quite ...
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Editing and Deleting smart folders
The web app allows users to create smart folder based on which files are displayed. See wireframe below
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
How should I go about ...
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Are hover features more discoverable in simple desktop web UIs?
Thinking only in the scope of a desktop website, I'm wondering about the discoverability of mouse hover functionality.
Allow me to contrive a scenario to explain my question: Let's say I'm designing ...
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Indicate ”hoverable” text
I have a table with “hoverable” text, but how do I make it clear to the user that more information will show up if he hovers over it?
I was thinking of an icon at first, but I don’t know if it is ...
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How to users like hidden content styled?
I have a avatars table. On hover, I want the avatar's username to appear. On click, the user will go to their personal page. Of these three types of hidden content, which would best suit this purpose? ...
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Hint for the hover state in both web and mobile versions [duplicate]
I am designing a portfolio page which is showcasing the list photographs. Below are the blue print and doubts.
Doubts:
How the user will know the portfolio items have a description on the hover ...
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Is the context-menu cursor a useful replacement for the pointer when opening a context-menu?
To connote that an element opens a menu and is not a link, we are using cursor: context-menu. See example.
Our target browsers all support the cursor. I can't find any relevant discussion on the ...
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Avoiding cursor jump when coming out of a hover state? [closed]
I'm wondering how you would get around a cursor jump when coming out of a hover state on a menu.
Here's an example of what I mean.
See how when you come out of a hover on item one is skips you to ...
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Delay in loading dropdown menu
I am currently using Amazon and I noticed that when you mouse over a dropdown menu (e.g. "Shop by department" or "Your Account"), there is a slight delay before it brings up the menu. Most other ...
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How to handle tooltips on moving control/object?
My company is building an on-line map which displays moving objects (vehicles) and static objects (bus stops).
When the user hovers over an item, a tooltip with additional info about all the objects ...
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Choosing the hover color of a link, logically
The menu color of the apple website fades out when you hover it, which I believe is wrong because hovering an item is like activating it, hence a positive action.
With that said, what's a logical ...
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How do users know to hover over elements?
I realized something today. I was looking at a new icon at Airbnb's site, and wanted to hover over it to see if there was anything hidden that would expose on hover: there was.
My question: How do ...
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Should minor links be styled with the same hover effects as primary links?
I have the following article which has a primary title link as well as breadcrumb and social links.
Should I use the primary links' hover effect style for the breadcrumb and social links or ...
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How to indicate data in a table is clickable on a touch device?
For users on a touch device, what is the convention for indicating each figure (cell) is clickable to a page with information on where the figure originated?
On desktop it would be easy to have a ...
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Does the hover functionality on Netflix's website break UI best practice?
For example:
My explanation of what's happening in the gif: When a title has been hovered for a short amount of time, that title expands, pushing other content off the screen and grabbing the user's ...
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When do hover animations become a distraction to users?
I'll often visit beautiful websites with hover animations on links that become distracting to me, and I've noticed that I just play around with the animation and don't even end up clicking the link. I'...
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On Hover Styling for dropdown in top header
In my application, I've a selection drop-down in the main top-header menu. Now, I'm a little confused on how I should have on hover for that element. These are the two options:
Option 1: No ...
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Using sound effects on Mouse Hover / MouseOver
I'm building an application that is will mostly be used by "novice users". My team wants to add a sound effect to help aid the user understand that something is clickable when they hover over a button....
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Ads that expand on hover aka. engagement ads
Expanding on https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/products/engagement-ads.html -- is anybody aware of any research that covers usability vs. profitability in hover-to-expand ads (aka. engagement ads) vs. ...
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Lowering opacity on hover. Isn't it totally wrong?
It's a common practice to highlight an element on hover state.
By highlighting it, I obviously mean making it more visible than other elements.
But lately, I've witnessed the opposite trend on a ...
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How should I display this information if not in a tooltip?
I've got a tooltip (image below) that when the user hovers over it, they are given a quick one line summary of what they hovered over and then 8 more lines of information. I already know that's way ...
