-----It appears that Ken wrote, on 20021006 11:35 PM:

>In many browsers, especially for Windows, an image's alt text will
>display as a tool tip when you hover your mouse over the image for a
>second or so. This feature seems to be hit or miss using IE for Mac.

Perhaps it's worth mentioning this, since there may be those for whom
this is new information (and, in my opinion, this is a great feature that
I'm sure glad to have learned about recently): There is a sure way to get
this "tooltip" text displayed in your pages in all recent versions of IE
as well as most other new browsers. Enter the text you want displayed in
the TITLE attribute. This is one of those attribute that doesn't show up
very often in HTML appl's, but you can find it in Drwvr in the pull-down
menu that appears when you are editing a tag.

If, for example, I wanted a few sentences explaining where a certain link
would lead, I would first create the link, then right-click on the "<a>"
in the window's lower border and choose "Edit Tag..." (I could also get
this by choosing "Quick Tag Editor" from the "Modify" menu). This
displays the entire opening tag. I move my cursor to the very end of the
tag's contents and type a space and then "t" . . . After a slight pause,
Dreamweaver displays a pull-down menu and scrolls to the first "legal"
attribute choice that begins with a "t" . . . and I double-click on
"title" . . . . Now the appl provides equal sign and quotation marks, and
I enter the "tip" I want displayed.

The "title" attribute will work with very many tags besides <A. This
attribute is one of the "core HTML attributes" that are defined in the
HTML 4.0 standards, and is one that new browsers should all recognize.
(Alas, I've seen that Mac AOL 5 ignores it, but what can we expect!)

HTH,

Dan Feather




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