Help with Alt Text etc

AndyPix

bod1467 wrote: »

And to throw another curve ball ... some browser's won't show a tooltip for the Alt text, so you should also include a Title attribute as well.

<img src="whatever.jpg" alt="My alt text" title="My alt text" />

Intrigued - Can you name one ?

bod1467

Chrome and Firefox, as I recall. (It's been a while since I last checked). For example, if you check the avatars on this very forum you'll see the IMG tags have both alt and title attributes set.

Edit: I've just done a test. An image in a web page that only has alt text does not show a tooltip in Chrome; add the title attribute and it does.

AndyPix

Then they have not been coded correctly.
See here for browser compatibility :-

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_img_alt.asp

AndyPix

Alt text is NOT a tooltip .. There are different things.

Alt text is what the browser displays if it cant display the image.

bod1467

Indeed you are correct, but IE browsers have always shown a tooltip for the Alt text. So the default "expectation" is for a tooltip to appear. (Rightly or wrongly).

tronator

AndyPix wrote: »

Alt text is the text that appears on a website when you hover the mouse over a picture

AndyPix wrote: »

Alt text is NOT a tooltip .. There are different things.

Alt text is what the browser displays if it cant display the image.

You should make up your mind

Only IE shows/showed the alt text as tool tip, because MS doesn't care about standards. As you wrote in the second quote, it is not correct. The title attribute should show as tool tip.