About pop-up windows

A feature on the map can have descriptive information that is displayed in a pop-up window when you click it. This descriptive information can include a title, descriptive text, links to other websites, media elements such as an image, or a graph derived from the properties of the feature. It can also provide links to attachments of the feature.

Learn more about displaying the pop-up window for a feature

You can configure what is displayed in the pop-up window for the features in each layer in the map, specifying how the fields (attributes) of each feature are represented in the pop-up window. For features stored in the map, this configuration is fixed and the pop-up window can display certain descriptive information, while for configurable layers (those based on feature or map services, or created by importing data into the map), you can configure the pop-up window in different ways. For editable layers, you can also configure how attributes of the features can be edited within the pop-up window. You cannot display pop-up windows for layers based on WMS services.

By default, map services do not have pop-up windows configured; feature services have a default pop-up window configured to show all of the attributes of the feature.

Learn more about configuring pop-up windows

When you add a service from content items in ArcGIS Online to your map, it may have pop-up windows and other appearance properties already configured. You can change the configuration in the map, and you can also reset the configuration to that defined by the service item. If you are the owner of the service, you can also upload the new configuration from the map to your service item.

Learn more about uploading and resetting layer configurations