This article provides a brief explanation of how to add more information to a question using hover text via an HTML command. More information regarding HTML commands in REDCap can be found here - https://kb.wisc.edu/smph/informatics/page.php?id=92573

Normally, you can provide more information on a question by typing in the field note section of your question. This then creates a blue line of text underneath the question, shown in the example below:


This is it in editor view, but will appear very similar in preview mode as well.


This note can be turned into what is called hover text, where if you hover your mouse over the text, a box appears with more information, pictured below:


To do this, just input the HTML code below into the field note section of your question:


<acronym title="Put the big long Text here">Shorter word here</acronym>


For the example above, the code looks like this:


<acronym title="More information on the question can be found here">More info</acronym>



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