Re: FN-FORUM: ALT tag hover

date posted 1st August 2003 12:17

On Friday 01 Aug 2003 12:13 pm, 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?
> chris

Have a look at the css hover property (used with 'content'). It provides a
standards compliant, non-javascript way of accomplishing exactly this and
should work on most browsers.

/rob