[thelist] caption on images?
David Dorward
evolt at david.us-lot.org
Mon May 10 09:49:59 CDT 2004
On 10 May 2004, at 16:29, david.landy at somerfield.co.uk wrote:
> What is the best way to put a permanent caption on an image? ALT text
> will
> show only when you hold the mouse over the image...
No, alt text will show only if you happen to be using a browser which
will show the alternative representation of the image when you point at
it. There is no requirement for browsers to do this and many people
consider it a bug.
There are a number of options open to you depending on how far you want
to go.
You could place a paragraph of text after the image, you use use
JavaScript to extract data from the title attribute, you could alter
the image itself to include the caption. You could leave the text after
the image, or you could use CSS to position it on top of the image.
There are quite a few options, and 'best' depends on how well it needs
to be supported, how important the text is, and the usual vagaries of
such a subjective term.
--
David Dorward
<http://dorward.me.uk/>
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