On 8 dec 2004, at 21.20, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
It's good practise to have the title attribute also on images (in addition
to the ALT), as some browsers won't display the ALT Text as a tooltip.
alt = alternative text, used as a replacement _when the image can't be displayed_.
title = additional information. Use this when you want a tooltip (though there is no requirement for browsers to display title text as tooltips)
In some rare cases having the same text for both the alt and title attributes may be useful, but most of the time it isn't.
As for browsers displaying alt text as tooltips, as far as I know, IE Win is the only reasonably recent browser to stubbornly still do so.
Here's a longer discussion on this:
< http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200412/ the_alt_and_title_attributes/ >
/Roger
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