[_] best way to do 'tool tips' thingies
Alastair Moore
alastair at kozmo.co.uk
Fri Jul 21 11:58:53 BST 2006
On 21 Jul 2006, at 11:55, Tim Beadle wrote:
> 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.
It's a fair cop, guv.
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