[Year 12 IT Apps] Alt tags showing in IE, not in Firefox - DreamWeaver help please

[Mark Kelly]

This puzzled me too, but a quick google revealed this:

http://gadgetopia.com/post/3206

"The ALT tag for images is NOT supposed to produce a little tooltip when 
you mouseover an image, according to the HTML spec. This is supposed to 
be the job of the TITLE tag.

"Firefox has never done this for ALT tags, correctly obeying the spec. 
This always confused me, because some images would pop a tooltip and 
others wouldn’t. Apparently the ones that did also had a TITLE tag, 
unbeknowst to me.

"However, IE has always done it for the ALT tag too, which actually 
seems reasonable to me. I don’t see the harm.

"So someone created an extention for Firefox to “fix” this problem. Not 
everyone was pleased..."


Joseph Papaleo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Can someone advise me why alt tags created in html pages using 
> DreamWeaver appear in IE, but not in Firefox?  I'd like to remove this 
> problem from their upcoming online documentation task for U4O1.
> 
> Any advice appreciated
> 
> -- 
> Joseph Papaleo
> Ivanhoe Grammar School
> Plenty Campus
> 


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