Rudy, Thank you for your information about alt attributes. I really don't mind doing a find and replace, it's just kind of time consuming. So far I've never been able to figure out how to get a bookmarklet to work but I'm going to give it another go with the one you've recommended.
I was hoping not to reveal my vast ignorance here but since you've talked so much about tooltips I find I must bite the bullet and ask: What's a tooltip? At least now you know I wasn't trying to make the alt attribute be one, since I have no idea what it is. Cheryl and Rudy, I put an alt attribute of "spacer" on those two little guys? Is this bad? I can use the format "" instead. I suppose, if the aural and NN 4.X browser will just skip nicely over the "" that makes more sense. Who the heck needs to know about the existence of a spacer gif anyway? Finally, is an aural browser a whole different thing or is it merely Netscape, MSIE, Opera or the like with an added feature? Sherry rudy wrote: > > ... a spacer image should have the alt attribute but with no > > description because it is a meaningless image. So the proper tag is > > <img scr="spacer.gif" height="1px" width="50px" alt=" "> > > there is a slight difference between a null or empty attribute (NOT tag -- i > feel like i'm swimming against the current, though) and one that contains a > space, as in the example above > > some browsers (netscape 4+ i think) will show no tooltip for the empty alt, > but *will* show a tooltip if there's a space, although of course there's > nothing in it, it's just the tooltip box > > nevertheless, it could be disconcerting to get a blank tooltip box when you > happen to mouse over a spacer gif > > which shouldn't really matter, since tooltips aren't really what the alt > attribute is for anyway, but as a good web developer, you want to minimize > the number of whoopsies your code produces ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
