Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 02/07/06 02:15

Barbara de Zoete wrote:
> 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?
>

63% for January and falling Woot--woot!

The pisser is once in a while a get a damn WebTVer! Worst than NN4x, but
since these can be *paying customers* I try to accommodate ;-)


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Take care,

Jonathan
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