Highlighted row in options chain is confusing
When looking at an options chain for a stock, e.g.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/options/
the row that is hovered over/tapped on turns light blue, which makes it look very similar to all the rows that are currently "in the money". In fact, the only difference is that the highlighted row lacks the dark blue padding on its far left which the ITM options have. This can be confusing, especially on the mobile web site, where the row will be highlighted if it gets tapped on when the user is trying to scroll, for example. And if the user has scrolled horizontally to view information on the right of the chart, they may not see a difference between the highlighted row and the ITM rows at all.
The first time this happened to me, I didn't even realize that a row would become highlighted if tapped on, and so it caused me to think that a particular row was being erroneously reported as ITM.
I think it would be better to make the hovered/selected highlight a different color to clearly distinguish it from the ITM options.
Thank you for pointing this out. We changed the color of highlighted rows after your pertinent observation.
Keep the ideas coming!
Yahoo Finance team