Re: FN-FORUM: ALT tag hover

date posted 1st August 2003 12:05

George Hazlewood wrote:
> Chris Dawson wrote:
>> is there a simple way of making the ALT tag text appear when
>> hovering over an image on browsers like IE mac, safari?
>>
>> (like Windows IE does automatically)?
>>
>> e.g. a simple Javascript function?
>
> AFAIK this is entirely browser dependant, for example there is an
> installable extension for Phoenix/Firebird which turns them on like
> IE.
>
If you use the title tag it will appear as a hover in Moz, the alt tag will
show on the page if (for example) the image is missing. Can't speak for
Safari as I'm on a PC...

HTH, Paul.


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