Posted by Brian Cryer on 01/10/55 11:29

"Arne" <invalid@domain.invalid> wrote in message
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> Once upon a time *Brian Cryer* wrote:
>> I want to show extra information about a link and am doing this by
>> placing a
>> short narrative in the title attribute of an <a href... link. This works
>> fine in Internet Explorer (and I'm hoping in other browsers - I know I
>> should have checked but I've not done so yet), IE shows a tool-tip style
>> box
>> when I hover the mouse over the link. My question is whether it is
>> possible
>> to apply any formatting to this? what I'm really after is a line break,
>> but
>> if I put a <br> it comes out as part of the title.
>>
>> Any ideas would be appreciated. So too would be the knowledge that it
>> can't
>> be done (if it can't be done).
>
> You could try to use the same technic as is used here with pure CSS:
> http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html
>
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Thanks Arne. When I first looked at that I thought it must be using
JavaScript, but it doesn't. Its a very clever alternative.

Thanks. Much appreciated.
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Brian Cryer
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