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Posted by Neredbojias on 01/12/63 11:28
With neither quill nor qualm, Jonathan N. Little quothed:
> Brian Cryer wrote:
>
> > I want to show extra information about a link and am doing this by placing a
> > short narrative in the title attribute of an <a href... link. This works
> > fine in Internet Explorer (and I'm hoping in other browsers - I know I
> > should have checked but I've not done so yet), IE shows a tool-tip style box
> > when I hover the mouse over the link. My question is whether it is possible
> > to apply any formatting to this? what I'm really after is a line break, but
> > if I put a <br> it comes out as part of the title.
> >
> > Any ideas would be appreciated. So too would be the knowledge that it can't
> > be done (if it can't be done).
>
> You cannot format the tooltip created by the title attribute, and if you
> get your title text too long some (maybe all) UA's will truncate the text
>
> There are JavaScript tooltips, but of course require JavaScript to be
> enabled
>
> You can use CSS
>
> A .tip { display: none; }
> A:hover .tip {display: inline; }
> .tip DIV {
> border: 1px solid black;
> color: black;
> background-color: #ffd;
> font-size: 80%;
> width: 15em;
> padding: .2em;
> }
>
> <a href="#">Lorem ipsum
> <span class="tip">
> <div>
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer ...
> </div>
> </span>
> </a>
-A div in a span?
>
> This will cause your text to reflow, I think I have see some examples
> with position : absolute but lining up the div will be tricky...
>
>
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