Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 04/03/06 14:16

Chris Ianson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Well having found this group to be a fountain of knowledge I have another
> question. And hey, no worries if you don't know or don't want to answer,
> please ignore this.
>
> Is there a way to change the timeout of a tooltip AKA alt text over a
> picture? Normally the text appears for about 5 seconds then vanishes, but
> I'd like it to stay indefinitely on a specific picture. (It's a photo
> with a description of the photo).

No, there's no way to do this. And the ALT attribute is not supposed to be
used for the tooltip anyway - it's the text that should be displayed, if
the image cannot be display for whatever reason. Use the TITLE attribute
for additional information about the image. And no, you can't control how
the browser displays the TITLE attribute either.

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Benjamin Niemann
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