[_] best way to do 'tool tips' thingies
Tim Beadle
tim.beadle at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 11:55:27 BST 2006
On 21/07/06, Alastair Moore <alastair at kozmo.co.uk> wrote:
> The ALT tag should make a tool tip appear in IE (and possibly
> Firefox). You should be able to also use the title parameter, which
> will work for other browsers.
<pedant alert>
It's alt *text*...
</pedant alert>
Anyway, that will only work in IE, *not* FFx. Anyway, that's not what
alt text is for. It's *alternate* text, for display when the image
isn't displayed for whatever reason. The fact that NN4 and IE show it
as a tooltip is behaviour that is wrong, and shouldn't be relied upon.
You're right in that the title param is more reliable and is,
semantically, the best choice for people's names on photos.
Tim
> The ALT tag should make a tool tip appear in IE (and possibly
> Firefox). You should be able to also use the title parameter, which
> will work for other browsers.
<pedant alert>
It's alt *text*...
</pedant alert>
Anyway, that will only work in IE, *not* FFx. Anyway, that's not what
alt text is for. It's *alternate* text, for display when the image
isn't displayed for whatever reason. The fact that NN4 and IE show it
as a tooltip is behaviour that is wrong, and shouldn't be relied upon.
You're right in that the title param is more reliable and is,
semantically, the best choice for people's names on photos.
Tim