Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Tooltip popups? Use "title=" in your Tags

If you've created web pages, you've probably used the ALT as
part of your IMG tag. When your visitor puts their cursor
over the image, a pop-up ool-tip gives them essential
information.

You can get exactly the same effect on other web objects,
using itle.

Here are some examples.

News

on stock levels, availability, and suppliers>



    These ool-tips can give valuable help to your visitors,
    and make your page look neater - you don't need to have long
    explanations on display. By including them in a title tag,
    your visitors will see them when they need them.

    They'll work in Internet Explorer version 4 onwards.
    Netscape version 4 and later should show them correctly, but
    I haven't been able to test all versions.

    Happy site building!


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