[thelist] alt and title

[kristina]

Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 5:02:42 PM, ml wrote:

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>   <img "foo.gif" alt="foo alt text" title="foo title text">
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  the reason being (I forgot to mention) is that the
  browsers render alt and title differently, and where one
  can take advantage of title being longer 'one' should.

  I tend to use title to display instructions about what to
  do with the 'thing' its being a title for.  eg; a submit
  button would have title="click here to submit this form".
  And an input box would have title="enter your name here".

  I think Netscape 4.7 doesn't recognise title but it does
  alt.  And browsers that do recognise title display title
  on the mouseover - but I'm not sure what happens in voice
  browsers - do they read both alt and title?

  (I'm concerned that I have used alt and title for the
  wrong thing)

--
tia as always

bfn
.kristina

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