Adding hover text to a check box on a form

[Jana_Turley]

Is it possible to use the hover (Instruction field) text for check box fields. When testing, it does not show the instructions when hovering over the check box text.
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Sanford Whiteman​

[SanfordWhiteman]

Can you change the subject to explicitly include "Forms 1.0"? Otherwise you're going to get wrong answers (not from me of course ).

[Jana_Turley]

We are using form 2.0

[SanfordWhiteman]

That's frustrating because I prepared code for you based on the old Forms 1.0 and your initial question.

I'll post the Forms 2.0 version later.

[Jana_Turley]

My apologies Sanford on that. I did mis-type earlier on that. We do appreciate you providing us this information.

[SanfordWhiteman]

What element are you expecting to have hover text? The individual <label>s for the checkboxes, or the global label for the whole Checkboxes group?

Also note that not all browsers support displaying the title attribute as hover/hint text. So what you think is working already for other form widgets isn't really working cross-browser.

[Anthony_Baldman]

Sanford Whiteman​ Hi Sanford. We would like the individual labels for the checkboxes to have hover text. Here is where the form lives on our site. Please note, we include the form within our CMS platform Kentico so it's not a Marketo landing page. Here it is below.

https://www.tsia.com/tsia-membership/strategic-services#sts-learn
https://www.tsia.com/tsia-membership/strategic-services#sts-learn

We tried putting the hover text in the "Instructions Field" in the form editor.

Here is a screenshot of where I put it within the form,

[SanfordWhiteman]

/*
 * Copy the `title` attribute (hover text) from the <input> or its parent
 * to the global <label> element for the field
 */
MktoForms2.whenReady(function(form){
  var arrayify = getSelection.call.bind([].slice),
      formEl = form.getFormElem()[0],
      labels = arrayify(formEl.querySelectorAll("label"));
  labels
    .forEach(function(label){
       var htmlForByName = formEl.querySelector("[name='" + label.htmlFor + "']"),
           computedTitle;
       if (htmlForByName){
          computedTitle = htmlForByName.title || htmlForByName.parentNode.title;
          label.setAttribute("title", computedTitle);
       }
    });
});

This works for Checkbox and Checkboxes widget types. EDIT: Let's make it more generic and have it apply to all widget types, since actually this isn't specific to Checkbox//es. And no dependencies on externally added classes (.checklist-wrap isn't part of the standard form markup).

[Jay_Jiang]

Hover text goes in the "instructions" field in the forms editor not the "hint text" field. Hint text is for placeholder text.

and it does work. tested in chrome, ff, edge, ie, safari

Question: how are you testing? what browser are you using?

[SanfordWhiteman]

Depends on what they're trying to hover (thus my question).