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Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

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Russell Larkin on 13 Jul 2017 16:48:53

It would be useful to be able to change the background colour and transparency of the tooltip to highlight and colour-code, and to allow parts of the visual to be seen behind it. The latter would be extremely useful when comparing data in visuals and for when you have a tooltip with a lot of measures listed as the tooltip can often get in the way.

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a22ff017 d7ae-4953-a34a-eaad60605007 on 06 Jul 2020 00:18:26

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

Would like to see a tooltip with a transparent background option - essentially no background so that the text in the tooltip in is the foreground

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6f7932c1 e102-4b41-82d7-6b62a1b78603 on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:47

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

I would also love having ability to have different tooltip based on the visual context.

e.g possibility to have a tooltip specific to a "category column" of a matrix and another one different when hovering on the summarized values.

For now you can only have one tooltip for a given visual.

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55a2c58f f9e1-4530-a604-d33d00f7e820 on 05 Jul 2020 23:54:27

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

'Native, dark tooltip give very awesome UX when background is configured slightly transparent.
Power BI propose to configure transparency, both :
- in the parent visual's "tooltip / background" section (usually)
- in the tooltip page's background setting
Bur none of them end up with some transparency on the actual tooltip.

This is not rational (big ?). And this is disapointing.

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7e3ead3c 5c38-4665-9f9b-2f406da093f1 on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:32

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

I second that. Please add more controls of the tooltip (eg holding Ctrl button would make it stick so that a hyperlink within the tooltip can be selected) including the default positioning option per visual i.e. top/bottom/left/right.