Add clickable link to tooltip in Highcharts Scatter Plot

Question

I am trying to add a link to the tooltip in my Highcharts Scatter Plot. I am facing 2 problems:

• It is not actually creating the link
• The tooltip does not stick long enough for me to go over it and click the link.

Expanding on my second point, because there are so many points the tooltips changing. Also, I am not able to actually make my mouse go over the tooltip to actually click on anything.

Here is my code:

 Highcharts.chart('container', { chart: { type: 'scatter', zoomType: 'xy' }, title: { text: 'Height Versus Weight of 507 Individuals by Gender' }, subtitle: { text: 'Source: Heinz 2003' }, xAxis: { title: { enabled: true, text: 'Height (cm)' }, startOnTick: true, endOnTick: true, showLastLabel: true }, yAxis: { title: { text: 'Weight (kg)' } }, legend: { layout: 'vertical', align: 'left', verticalAlign: 'top', x: 100, y: 70, floating: true, backgroundColor: Highcharts.defaultOptions.chart.backgroundColor, borderWidth: 1 }, series: [{ name: 'Female', color: 'rgba(223, 83, 83, .5)', data: [[161.2, 51.6], [167.5, 59.0], [159.5, 49.2], [157.0, 63.0], [155.8, 53.6], [170.0, 59.0], [159.1, 47.6], [166.0, 69.8], [176.2, 66.8], [160.2, 75.2], [172.5, 55.2], [170.9, 54.2], [172.9, 62.5], [153.4, 42.0], [160.0, 50.0], [147.2, 49.8], [168.2, 49.2], [175.0, 73.2], [157.0, 47.8], [167.6, 68.8], [159.5, 50.6], [175.0, 82.5], [166.8, 57.2], [176.5, 87.8], [170.2, 72.8], [174.0, 54.5], [173.0, 59.8], [179.9, 67.3], [170.5, 67.8], [160.0, 47.0], [154.4, 46.2], [162.0, 55.0], [176.5, 83.0], [160.0, 54.4], [152.0, 45.8], [162.1, 53.6], [170.0, 73.2], [160.2, 52.1], [161.3, 67.9], [166.4, 56.6], [168.9, 62.3], [163.8, 58.5], [167.6, 54.5], [160.0, 50.2], [161.3, 60.3], [167.6, 58.3], [165.1, 56.2], [160.0, 50.2], [170.0, 72.9], [157.5, 59.8], [167.6, 61.0], [160.7, 69.1], [163.2, 55.9], [152.4, 46.5], [157.5, 54.3], [168.3, 54.8], [180.3, 60.7], [165.5, 60.0], [165.0, 62.0], [164.5, 60.3], [156.0, 52.7], [160.0, 74.3], [163.0, 62.0], [165.7, 73.1], [161.0, 80.0], [162.0, 54.7], [166.0, 53.2], [174.0, 75.7], [172.7, 61.1], [167.6, 55.7], [151.1, 48.7], [164.5, 52.3], [163.5, 50.0], [152.0, 59.3], [169.0, 62.5], [164.0, 55.7], [161.2, 54.8], [155.0, 45.9], [170.0, 70.6], [176.2, 67.2], [170.0, 69.4], [162.5, 58.2], [170.3, 64.8], [164.1, 71.6], [169.5, 52.8], [163.2, 59.8], [154.5, 49.0], [159.8, 50.0], [173.2, 69.2], [170.0, 55.9], [161.4, 63.4], [169.0, 58.2], [166.2, 58.6], [159.4, 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 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script> <script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/exporting.js"></script> <script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/export-data.js"></script> <script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/accessibility.js"></script> <div id="container"></div>

Answer 1

1. Starting href value with www is not allowed by default in Highcharts. You can check Highcharts.AST.allowedReferences array (more info here ). As a solution add www to the array: Highcharts.AST.allowedReferences.push('www'); or use https://www.google.pl/ href. You can also enable useHTML property, but it is not essential.

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2. Depending on your needs you can:

• enable stickOnContact
• increase hideDelay
• disable stickyTracking for series

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Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/v3psjLgw/

API Reference:

https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/series.scatter.stickyTracking

https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/tooltip.stickOnContact

https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/tooltip.useHTML