Battling with Interactive Image

Because I can't change the position of the explanatory text pane in the Interactive Image I got "creative" and fudged it to be more like how I want it. I set the background of the explanatory text to black (with the text itself white) - to the new "pane" is only ever as big as the explanatory text, rather than uniform across all interactive items. I then set the graphical style of the pane's background to "none" so it doesn't show up and overlap any of the image.
When previewing on the iPad, however, the pane's background appears and greys out my entire image as the explanatory text appears. Not cool.
Ideally it'd all just appear in the pop-up bubbles but in a rather silly design decision the width of the unselected bubble is the same as the width of the expanded bubble, making a slightly crowded interactive image totally unreadable.
Does anyone have any tips on removing the background of the pane in the explanatory text properly?
J

1) Open Inspector (make sure the widget is the highlighted/active element).
2) Click on the widget icon (top right brrwn box with cog in it).
3) You can now choose "Layout" or "Interaction". You want "Layout".
4) Check or uncheck the boxes for Title, Caption or Background until you get your desired appearance. You can change the position of the label in there too!

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