[thelist] Tooltips (was: Initial site check)

[Philippe Wittenbergh]

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 09:49  PM, Benjer wrote:

> After searching evolt I came across this:
>
> 'tip type="alt attributes"'
> I have never used this but was gathered from Linda R.
> (http://www.playingwithfire.com - Fireworks site). If you do not want
> the
> alt attribute to appear onmouseover, include an extra empty alt
> attribute
> before the proper one, like:
>
> alt="" alt="description here"
>
> Apparently browsers that need the alt tag will use the second one,
> while the
> tooltip will come from the first so not appear.

How awful...:/

use an empty title tag instead.
<img src="myimage.gif alt="contents here" title="" />

P.

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