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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 08/30/07 17:55
Art wrote:
> On 8/29/07 6:10 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
>> Scripsit John:
>>
>>> <acronym title="apple pie custard tart">desserts</acronym>
>>>
>>> Is there any way I could place a line feed after pie so I get
>>>
>>> apple pie
>>> custard tart
>>>
>>> on two lines
>>
>> What you really want is a line break in the tooltip that you expect browsers
>> to show on mouseover. The answer is that you can't achieve that in any
>> reliable manner. Putting a line break in the source,
>>
>> <acronym title="apple pie
>> custard tart">desserts</acronym>
>>
>> may make some browsers do what you want, but this is really a browser _bug_.
>> It violates HTML rules that say that a line break inside an attribute value
>> is equivalent to a space.
>>
>> What are you trying to achieve, anyway? The word "desserts" ain't no
>> acronym, so <span> would be the proper markup. But tooltips created by title
>> attributes are a lousy way of presenting information, except in special
>> cases where users can be expected to know about them.
>>
> Scripsit John,
>
> You can try placing an encoded line feed into the title:
>
><acronym title="apple pie custard tart">
>
> although this isn't universally recognized by all browsers for
> tool-tips. Firefox, IE, and Safari do. Opera and Seamonkey don't
> (treats it as a space).
I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would treat "desserts" as an
acronym.
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