Are they thinking of the "title" attribute? That gives a 'tooltip' (sorry non-MS folks ;) Jason www.jasoncartwright.com > -----Original Message----- > From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org > [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Tom Dell'Aringa > Sent: 19 September 2002 19:44 > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org > Subject: [thelist] helptext attribute? > > > My client also has suggested something like this to me: > > <input HELPTEXT="doctor name"....> > > I have never heard of such an attribute and not having much > luck on the web...is this a valid attribute? I don't see it > in any HTML references...