Re: FN-FORUM: ALT tag hover

date posted 1st August 2003 14:46

Charlotte Owen wrote:
> Seems Opera & Moz on W2K don't show ALT as default. Maybe TITLE would be
> better for this application, as it shows fine in IE/Opera/Moz?

That's because they use the alt/title attributes *properly*. It is not
meant to be hover popup text. The title attribute is more of a
descriptive text used to replace images that cannot be shown, while the
alt attribute is used for accessibility issues.

Em
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