Problem with hooks not appearing unless background is clicked

Authoring Twine
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Hi All

I am trying to create a glossary for my game (using most recent version of Harlowe)

At the top of the glossary passage I have the following A-Z hooks, with a space for output underneath:

[A]<a| [B]<b| etc
|textoutput>
(click: ?a)[(replace: ?textoutput)[[[apple->glossaryapple]]]]

The code above works fine, however, if I add another item to the glossary under the letter A, there is a problem.

with the following:

(click: ?a)[(replace: ?textoutput)[[[apple->glossaryapple]]<br>[[aardvark->glossaryaardvark]]]]

Nothing happens when I click A initally. I have to click again on the blank page and then the links appear. Could anyone explain where I am going wrong? I have also tried creating an array with the necessary links and come up against the same issue.

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It helps if you state the exact version of the story format you are using as answers can vary based on this information. I will assume you are using the Twine v2.3.5 application which comes with Harlowe v3.1.0 installed.

I added the following code example to a new Harlowe v3.1.0 based project…

[A]<a| [B]<b| etc
|textoutput>[]
(click: ?a)[(replace: ?textoutput)[[[apple->glossaryapple]]<br>[[aardvark->glossaryaardvark]]]]

…then tested the generated story HTML file within Chrome on Windows 10 and didn’t have the issue you described.

Which web-browser (brand, version, 32/64bit) did you use the test your code? And which Operating System (brand, version, edition, 32/64bit) were you running it on?

note: Due to how the (click:) family of macros are implemented it is generally advised that you use one of the (link:) family of macros instead whenever possible. The following is a variation of your code that uses the (link-repeat: ) macro to achieve a similar result.

{
(link-repeat: "A")[(replace: ?textoutput)[ [[apple->glossaryapple]]<br>[[aardvark->glossaryaardvark]]]]
(link-repeat: "B")[(replace: ?textoutput)[...]]
etc
}
|textoutput>[]

Without an example of your “array” based code it is difficult to determine why it didn’t work as you expected.