Posted by Barbara de Zoete on 11/16/05 00:57

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:48:48 +0100, Stefan Mueller
<seekware-remove-@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'd like to add a tooltip text to one word within a sentence.
>
> With the attribute <b>...</b> it works perfect but the word gets bold:
> What is <b title = "It's a planet">Pluto</b>?

Wel, yeaheh, that is what bold is supposed to do, isn't it.
BTW: what you call attributes are in fact elements and the way you note
them down (<b>) you use the tags.

> With the attribute <div>...</div> the word doesn't get bold but there is
> a line break:
> What is <div title = "It's a planet">Pluto</div>?

That is because the div is a block level element. What you need is an
inline element. >

> Is there an attribute I can use only to add a tooltip text to a word?

The generic inline element (if there is nothing more appropriate
available) is a span:
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-SPAN>

Don't forget to style the span so visitors can see that the word has a
tooltip. I would do it something like:

markup:
What is <span class="answer" title="It is a planet">Pluto</span>?

styles:
span.anwer {
cursor:help;
border-bottom:1px dotted blue; }

It is doubtful we will regard Pluto a planet in some time from now btw,
but that is an entirely different matter :-)

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