RE: FN-FORUM: ALT tag hover

date posted 1st August 2003 12:18


> 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.

fwiw title="tooltip here" works in IE too, just that IE erronously
displays the alt tag as a tooltip if title is missing.

W3C:

title:
"Values of the title attribute may be rendered by user agents in a
variety of ways. For instance, visual browsers frequently display the
title as a "tool tip" (a short message that appears when the pointing
device pauses over an object). Audio user agents may speak the title
information in a similar context. For example, setting the attribute on
a link allows user agents (visual and non-visual) to tell users about
the nature of the linked resource:"

alt:
Several non-textual elements (IMG, AREA, APPLET, and INPUT) let authors
specify alternate text to serve as content when the element cannot be
rendered normally. Specifying alternate text assists users without
graphic display terminals, users whose browsers don't support forms,
visually impaired users, those who use speech synthesizers, those who
have configured their graphical user agents not to display images, etc.


good practice to use them both:



HTH

Tony