Posted by Barbara de Zoete on 02/07/06 01:28

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:20:31 +0100, Jonathan N. Little
<lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:

> Barbara de Zoete wrote:
>> On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:27:56 +0100, John Salerno
>> The value 'inherit' means that the cursor will look just like what
>> it looks like when it is over the content of the parent of the
>> abbriviation element. So it might look like nothing happens, when in
>> fact that is what is supposed to happen.
>> If there is no title, the value 'help' is rather useless, isn't it.
>>
>
> Yep, that is why *my* code had the help cursor on ABBR *with* the title
> attribute is present. The snipping above is misleading, my code example
> was:
>
> ABBR { border-bottom: 1px dotted silver; }
> ABBR[title] { cursor: help; }
>
> first occurrence: <abbr title="United Kingdom">UK</abbr>
> ... later occurrence: <abbr>UK</abbr>

Somewhere in these threads I had exactly the same thing (other content
though). Problem with this is that IE6 doesn't support properties/values
on abbr[title], so it won't work in that browser. I still get some two
thirds of my visitors using IE. How about you?

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