Posted by Spartanicus on 04/03/06 14:24

"Chris Ianson" <notme@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Well having found this group to be a fountain of knowledge

What group? You cross posted.

>Is there a way to change the timeout of a tooltip AKA alt text over a
>picture?

How to specify alternate text: (and what it is for)
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#alternate-text

It's not supposed to be presented as a "tooltip" (common graphical
browsers), only IE exhibits this behaviour. Advisory title content
should be coded with the HTML title attribute, use that and even IE will
display it as a "tooltip".

>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).

It's a browser property, a user may be able to change it in their
browser, an author has no control over it.

JS can probably be used to generate "tooltip like" widgets, using that
you probably have some control over the time it's displayed.

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Spartanicus

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