html content in tooltip- make part of the content a url link

[ldwf]

I am using html content in a tooltip and it works fine.  I did this by creating a table in the model and manually entered in the html content, row by row.  When the user hovers over the visual, the corresponding tooltip appears.  For each record, I need part of the text to be a clickable link to a website.  Here is a simplified version of what I did:

<p><b><u><a href='https://www.somewebsite.com'>Text to display</a></b></u><br> <br> &bull;  more text</p>

I want the 'Text to display' be a clickable link to a website (i.e, somewebsite.com), and I want it bold and underlined.  My understanding is that the <a href and the </a is how you make this part of the text in the tooltip be a clickable link, and you precede it with the website address.  But when I test it out, it doesn't navigate to anyplace. 

[v-tsaipranay]

Hi @ldwf ,

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Fabric Community Forum. Also thank you @danextian for your insights.

As mentioned by @lbendlin , Power BI tooltips including those using the HTML Content visual do not support clickable hyperlinks. This is a current platform limitation.

As a workaround, you can display the link as plain text or use a table/matrix visual where URLs are clickable. Alternatively, consider a report page tooltip with navigation buttons.

If this feature is important to you, feel free to suggest it on the Fabric Ideas portal.

I hope this helps. Please feel free to reach out if you need any further assistance.

Thank you.

[danextian]

Hi @ldwf 

You can interact with a page tooltip, but it’s not a good experience. To click a link inside the tooltip, the user has to be very, very fast because the tooltip disappears almost instantly if the mouse moves even slightly. A better approach, depending on the visuals, is to place the link directly on the visual or use shapes with a Web URL action. This can also be made dynamic using measures.

[lbendlin]

If this is important to you please consider voting for an existing idea or raising a new one at https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com

[ldwf]

Are you suggesting I consider voting because it is not possible to make part of the text be a hyperlink?

[lbendlin]

correct.  You can experiment with tooltip pages, but the regular tooltips do not support any formatting.