Firefox truncating text in "title" attribute

Is there a way to stop Firefox from trimming my titles?

[jetnovo]

I'm making a site that has a large map.gif image with labels of geographical features on the map.

My intention is that when someone mouses over one of the labels on the map, a title will appear giving brief information about that location.

Eg:

<area shape="rect" coords="178,12,252,27" alt="Farewell Spit: Largest natural sand bar in the world and loads of migrant birds coming from as far north as Siberia. " title="Farewell Spit: Largest natural sand bar in the world and loads of migrant birds coming from as far north as Siberia. ">

Although Internet Explorer 6.0 displays the titles perfectly, Firefox 1.0 truncates them after roughly 60 characters. In the above example, it displays the title as: "Farewell Spit: Largest natural sand bar in the world and loads of migrant birds coming f..." - obviously "f..." is not an ideal truncation!

Is there a way to stop Firefox doing this? As far as I can see at W3C.org there is no official limit to the size of a title.

[Zeolite]

This is a known bug in Firefox and Mozilla, over four years old. I wouldn't hold my breath on a fix.

There is a less-than-simple workaround you can use on your own Firefox installation, but that won't help you as a website author.

[StupidScript]

So far, so good, Zeolite. Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

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