Posted by Mark Parnell on 05/29/06 04:58

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Sebastian Eichinger
<eichinger.s@gmx.de> declared in alt.html:

> When having the mouse over a link, there is not only shown the
> self-created "info-field" - there is the default-link-tooltip, too.
> The popup-field, which contains the url,

Opera is the only common browser I know of that shows the address as a
tooltip.

> or - if added - the text
> entered in the "title"-attribut at the html-link-tag.

That's easy to fix - don't add a title attribute. ;-)

> Because of i want to use small images _and_ text, i have this problem at
> my pictures there, too. To write proper html i used the "alt"-attribut
> on images, well, and now there is shown this text as a popup, too.

Only in IE - it *is* a naughty little thing. It can be brought into line
by adding a blank title attribute (title="").

> One thought at last: While IE constantly shows these tooltips, firefox
> seems to have trouble with them. sometimes they're shown, sometimes not.
> Seems to be a little bug in 1.5.0.3, or something.

As above, IE incorrectly displays the alt text as a tooltip (it is
supposed to be an *alternative* to the image), but a blank title
attribute corrects this behaviour.

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Mark Parnell
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