Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 10/06/06 18:51

Alan J. Flavell wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> (which IE knowingly does). All other compliant browsers
>> display the 'tooltip' using the title text.
>
> That's a bit inaccurate, actually.

Not inaccurate, just not as complete a description as yours. <g>

> Far be it from me to defend IE, but it *does* use the title attribute
> correctly. It's only if the title attribute is missing that it
> reverts to this older and deprecated behaviour of making a "tooltip"
> using the alt text instead.
>
> This can be defeated, if you don't want a title, by coding title=""

This is true. However, since many novices do not know this, they think
modern browsers are at fault when they do not show the tooltip. "Hey, IE
shows it, so the rest must be wrong..."

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