RE: FN-FORUM: ALT tag hover

date posted 1st August 2003 15:29

Hey,

Actually, the ALT tag is meant to be used to as a replacement for images
that cannot be shown (y'know, ALTernative). TITLE is more of a meta tag,
used to describe the element it is associated with, whether it's an image,
link, whatever.

You'll see TITLE commonly used in links:
Freelancers

or the ABBR tag:
HTML

Well, maybe you won't see the ABBR tag *that* often, seeing as IE doesn't
support it...

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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: ALT tag hover

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