Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/30/06 20:51

paul wrote:
> In my website when I put the mouse over an image, I see the description I
> have put in it using the tag alt=

This isn't a tag. If you have <alt> anywhere on your page, it won't do
anything. It's an attribute.

> and this is normal, isn't it?

No, it's a special quirk in IE that also existed in Netscape 4 but that
was eliminated when Netscape 6 came out.

> It is OK (almost always). Infact the strange thing is that sometime, for
> hours or days I can't see this text putting the mouse on the image. Nothing
> happens.

Are those the days when you're using Firefox or Opera or Netscape 6 or 7?

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