Because it shouldn't. IE is the one who does it wrong. There is an extension though, if you're that silly :/
http://www.gadgetopia.com/2004/11/09/FirefoxALTTagsAndTooltips.html On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:11:36 +0000, Joey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am curious as to why Firefox only understands the title attribute when > creating tool tips, why cant we just use ALT? Cause if we want tool tips on > our sites to work on all browsers this means we have to enter an ALT & TITLE > attribute which doubles the code for the same thing? Not very nice code in > my opinion (necessary but i don't see why) then if we just use TITLE > attribute we get Web Standards errors when validating our code? Yet if we > just use ALT we don't get tool tips in Firefox ???? Whats the deal with > this? I have always wondered i hope someone can enlighten me! > > Cheers! :-) > > > (If anyone saw my previous post about trying to position a DIV tag always > bottom right of the page, and has a solution for that, please help me! I > still haven't worked it out) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Josef Dunne > Web Developer > > > w: http://www.burninthespotlight.com > > Get Firefox! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > THIS EMAIL MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL OR LEGALLY PRIVILEGED INFORMATION. > IF YOU ARE NOT THE NAMED ADDRESSEE YOU MUST NOT USE OR DISCLOSE SUCH > INFORMATION. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Cheers, Rob. » http://zooibaai.nl ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
