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From: davy on 12 Jan 2010 01:07 Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote: > davy wrote: >> Hi. I have been adding alt attribute to the jpegs on my website. The >> text boxes are there on the Preview tab(Frontpage) and they appear on >> IE but when I checked they don't appear on Firefox or Chrome. > > An alt tag should only be displayed by a browser when the image cannot > be. Naturally, IE gets it wrong. > >> I have some text boxes on my index page that appear on all browsers. >> Any thoughts? > > By 'text boxes' do you mean tool tips? These should appear when you > hover over an element and are different to alt tags. > From the book I'm using as a reference: "The alt attribute adds a text pop-up to your image." Hope that helps, d
From: davy on 12 Jan 2010 01:08 Craig Welch wrote: > davy wrote: > >> Hi. I have been adding alt attribute to the jpegs on my website. The >> text boxes are there on the Preview tab(Frontpage) and they appear on >> IE but when I checked they don't appear on Firefox or Chrome. I have >> some text boxes on my index page that appear on all browsers. >> Any thoughts? > > What do you mean by 'text boxes'? What does this have to do with 'alt > attributes'? From the book I'm using as a reference: "The alt attribute adds a text pop-up to your image." Hope that helps, d
From: Hunter on 12 Jan 2010 04:04 davy wrote: > Hi. I have been adding alt attribute to the jpegs on my website. The > text boxes are there on the Preview tab(Frontpage) and they appear on IE > but when I checked they don't appear on Firefox or Chrome. I have some > text boxes on my index page that appear on all browsers. > Any thoughts? > d That's because Microsoft don't do anything like anyone else. Try "title=" instead of "alt=". If this fucks it up for IE then try both.
From: davy on 12 Jan 2010 04:21 Hunter wrote: > davy wrote: >> Hi. I have been adding alt attribute to the jpegs on my website. The >> text boxes are there on the Preview tab(Frontpage) and they appear on >> IE but when I checked they don't appear on Firefox or Chrome. I have >> some text boxes on my index page that appear on all browsers. >> Any thoughts? >> d > > > That's because Microsoft don't do anything like anyone else. Try > "title=" instead of "alt=". If this fucks it up for IE then try both. > I added the "title=" and the little "text pop-ups" appear on all browsers.. All within my limited range of abilities to. Thanks for that. d
From: Hunter on 12 Jan 2010 04:27
davy wrote: > Hunter wrote: >> davy wrote: >>> Hi. I have been adding alt attribute to the jpegs on my website. The >>> text boxes are there on the Preview tab(Frontpage) and they appear on >>> IE but when I checked they don't appear on Firefox or Chrome. I have >>> some text boxes on my index page that appear on all browsers. >>> Any thoughts? >>> d >> >> >> That's because Microsoft don't do anything like anyone else. Try >> "title=" instead of "alt=". If this fucks it up for IE then try both. >> > I added the "title=" and the little "text pop-ups" appear on all browsers.. > All within my limited range of abilities to. > Thanks for that. No worries, "title" is the correct standard by the way, MS just like being difficult. |