[html4all.org] alt on IMG on the wiki

[Robert Burns]

Hi Josh,

I  turns out, the wiki mystery of how they displayed a tooltip with  
only alt was rather easily solved. I hadn't looked at the parent  
element. WikiMedia wraps every image in an anchor so what WikiMedia  
calls alt text in their syntax is actually repeated as many as three  
times: once f for alt attribute on the image itself, a second time  
for the title attribute of the enclosing anchor,  and a third time  
for the caption (optional). So the problem is not that we won't have  
alt text will just have it repeated several times.

Take care,
Rob

On Aug 24, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Joshue O Connor wrote:

>> How do they make
>> the alt text show up as a tooltip in Safari and other browsers (it
>> looks like it's coming from title)
>
> AFAIK yes it is the title attribute that gets displayed as a  
> tooltip. I
> wouldn't worry about the tooptip rendering too much and just use  
> alt and
> title attributes according to spec (if only they could here me  
> now) :-)
>
> Josh
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