IMG ALT Attribute with Mozilla

[Thomas Fuchs]

Hi.

I want to display a short text, when the mouse is moved over a picture
in my website. With IE ist works like this:

<img src="../../../myPic.gif" alt="This is my Pic">


but Mozilla especially Firefox does not display the ALT Text.

Is there a workaround, how to do this with Mozilla ?!?

Thank you for reading and answering

Thomas Fuchs

 

[Tonnie]

Hi.

I want to display a short text, when the mouse is moved over a picture
in my website. With IE ist works like this:

<img src="../../../myPic.gif" alt="This is my Pic">


but Mozilla especially Firefox does not display the ALT Text.

Is there a workaround, how to do this with Mozilla ?!?

Thank you for reading and answering

No workaround needed, use title="".

IE incorectly shows the value in alt.



Tonnie

 

[Els]

Hi.

I want to display a short text, when the mouse is moved over a picture
in my website. With IE ist works like this:

<img src="../../../myPic.gif" alt="This is my Pic">


but Mozilla especially Firefox does not display the ALT Text.

Is there a workaround, how to do this with Mozilla ?!?

Thank you for reading and answering

IE is doing it wrong, as the alt attribute is meant to be the
alternative when for some reason the image isn't displayed.
To get the text when hovering with the mouse, use the title attribute.
This will work in both Mozilla and IE - IE only uses the alt value if
the title attribute is missing.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Hi.

I want to display a short text, when the mouse is moved over a picture
in my website. With IE ist works like this:

<img src="../../../myPic.gif" alt="This is my Pic">


but Mozilla especially Firefox does not display the ALT Text.

Is there a workaround, how to do this with Mozilla ?!?

Thank you for reading and answering

Thomas Fuchs

The little 'tooltip' text is displayed with the TITLE attribute, ALT was
really supposed to be text to to be displayed as an ALTernative when the
image was missing or for text only browsers. A workaround to support old
4x browsers is to set both

<IMG SRC="image.jpg" ALT="Some Text" TITLE="Some Text">

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

I want to display a short text, when the mouse is moved over a
picture in my website.

Stop wanting that. If the text is relevant, include it as normal
content, e.g. as a caption below the image. If it is not, omit it.

Others have told that it's the title attribute that's supposed to tell
an "advisory title". And that's correct but less important than the
principle of not making your page a puzzle.

With IE ist works like this:

<img src="../../../myPic.gif" alt="This is my Pic">

No, IE implements the alt attribute _poorly_. But that's a different
story. And "This is my Pic" is poor both as an alt attribute and as a
title attribute. (Right, it's just an example. But why not show
a good example. Besides, people _do_ write such foolish attributes
in reality, too.)

 

[jake]

No workaround needed, use title="".

IE incorectly shows the value in alt.

Only if no TITLE= is available.

 

[Tonnie]

Only if no TITLE= is available.

Yes, did i say something else?