Hi Everyone
I hate to keep flooding this arena with questions, but I can't find the answer to this
one and it might be helpful to others.
We have a form and we used to use a popup window to offer more information about a
field. For instance, when answering the question Initial Deposit Date, if
I've looked on the W3C.org site and I don't see any mention of the
title attribute being allowed or not allowed on elements other than images
and links.
title is part of the core attributes which can be applied to pretty much
everything
(with a few exceptions)
I do that myself, and it works wonderfully. The title attribute is
extremely well supported, including IE. BTW, you might want to give
some visual cue that the user can hover over it... I put a faint gray
line underneath such elements (marked with a span), and also bring in
the help cursor.
It is probably worth mentioning that not all user agents will represent
your title in the same way (if at all), safari f'rinstance puts the
title text in the status bar rather than a tooltip...
I do like patrick's visual indicator idea, that dotted line is fast
becoming an accepted method for
On Jul 14, 2004, at 4:46 PM, scott parsons wrote:
It is probably worth mentioning that not all user agents will
represent your title in the same way (if at all), safari f'rinstance
puts the title text in the status bar rather than a tooltip...
That's not so. Safari (v125.8 anyway) puts titles in
ok, my bad...
I'm outa the office at the mo' . My version of safari is 1.0 and I
remember that effect, I'll have to test later
s
Sage Olson wrote:
On Jul 14, 2004, at 4:46 PM, scott parsons wrote:
It is probably worth mentioning that not all user agents will
represent your title in the same way
