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Mouse over on image
      #158936 - Mon Feb 07 2005 09:08 PM

I use Front page 2002 and would be grateful if someone could help me with the following problem. I have seen other peoples websites where if you hover the mouse over an image a description appears in a small text box. Can anyone explain if this is possible with Front page and if so, how is it done
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Re: Mouse over on image [Re: wdp]
      #158949 - Mon Feb 07 2005 09:37 PM

Use of the alt tag within the image source will do the trick;

<img src="assets/123abc.jpg" alt="This is a sample of the alt text to be dispalyed on mouse-over RE the image!">
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Re: Mouse over on image [Re: wdp]
      #158989 - Mon Feb 07 2005 10:26 PM

They wont show up in Firefox though!
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Re: Mouse over on image [Re: Whizwrinkly]
      #159042 - Mon Feb 07 2005 11:47 PM

I have just tried the <title> tag and found it will work as alt text in images in firefox.ie
<img src="images/flashing camera.gif" title="camera" width="100" height="150">

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Re: Mouse over on image [Re: ianm]
      #159514 - Wed Feb 09 2005 01:15 PM

The alt attribute popping up text is an undocumented feature in IE, rather than an HTML standard.

Ian is right - for full cross browser compatibility you should use the title attribute within an img tag.


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