Alt tag

Posted by yovation on Sat, 05/20/2006 - 22:12Recycle Bin

Hello,

 When using another browser, I can see the Alt tags when hovering over an image.  For some reason, in firefox, they don't display.

 Does anyone have an idea/solution to this?

 Thank you.



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To be more specific: The
Submitted by garyr_h on Sun, 05/21/2006 - 07:03.

To be more specific:

The alt attritube (it's not a tag... tags declare an object like <a> is a tag) is short for 'alternative', meaning it was developed for the use as an alternative to when the image does not display. Internet Explorer along with some other browsers have 'abused' the alt tag by making it show up when on hover, when infact that was not its original purpose.

The title attribute is used to 'title' objects.

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alt=attribute - Thank You
Submitted by yovation on Tue, 05/23/2006 - 15:23.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to reply.  I understand now.

 yovation.

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Ironically...
Submitted by Kelson on Mon, 05/22/2006 - 17:21.

The first web browser (IIRC) to abuse the alt attribute in this way was Netscape 4.  I remember there was a big controversy when Mozilla decided to do the right thing and only show tooltips for title attributes, in hopes of encouraging people to use alt for alternative text and title for tooltips.

(On a related topic, I just noticed that this editor is improperly converting all of my <i> tags to <em> tags.  <em> is only appropriate if it's actually intended as emphasis. Sometimes, italics have an entirely different semantic meaning or none at all.  *grumble*)

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title tag
Submitted by on Sat, 05/20/2006 - 22:30.

 title tag

<p><img src="path2image.gif"  title="Firefox Flicks"alt="Firefox Flicks" width="468" height="60" /></p> 

here is a good link  w3schools.com


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