Joey 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!
Doing so would be a spec violation. Alt & title are intended for different purposes. Alt is for display when the image is not available, a substitute for the missing image only when the image is not available. Title is not limited to images, and can be used anywhere to say anything. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25537 explains in more detail why Gecko does not and will not have what you think you want. -- "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
