Posted by David Dorward on 03/29/06 22:46

nn wrote:

Alt is an _attribute_, not a tag.

> A few days ago I discovered that, when I place the arrow on an image, that
> the alt text (describing what you see for those who do not want to load
> images) does not appear any more.

Most browsers don't display alt text when the mouse is pointing at images.
The purpose of alt text is to be displayed *instead* of the image if it
can't be displayed.

IE is about the only exception.

> Neither does the window with the save as, larger, smaller, etc function
> (which also appears when you place the arrow on an image).

Also an IE specific feature. It can be disabled by web authors through the
use of meta data, or a (non-standard and proprietary) attribute on the
image. I believe the browser has a preference to turn it off too.

IE7 betas might change the state of play here, I haven't looked.

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