Image Alt Tag Font-Size?

[Sypher_5]

Is there anyway to control the size of the text inside of the alt tag?

[aevea]

I could be wrong, but I think it's only controllable from the user's display property settings and can't be modified through css.

Adam

[DrDoc]

You're absolutely correct! It can't be modified using CSS (or anything else). It has to be adjusted by the user...

[chadmg]

trust the display result to the end-user?!? damn you w3c!

[drbrain]

The properties of a displayed alt attribute is inherited. It takes on whatever formatting its parent element has.

<span style="font-size: 2em"><img src="foo" alt="2em text"></span>

<img style="font-size: 2em" src="bar" alt="1em text">

[DrDoc]

No, it doesn't ;)

I assume we're talking the tooltip

[drbrain]

Oh, tooltips! (For those broken browsers that display alt= as a tooltip.) Yes, agreed. (Same for title=)

I meant when the image doesn't exist (I should have specified src="non_existent_image") the way alt is supposed to work.

[DrDoc]

But otherwise, yes, the alt text is supposed to be controlled like any other text. Except for IE, of course :)

[g1smd]

Hmm, I set the default CSS for a page as

body, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, input, li, ol, p, select, td, textarea, tr, ul {
font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; }

and that bold style is inherited both in the image alt text and in the link popup title tooltip text every time in Mozilla.

That isn't what I wanted, so I'll have to go back and amend the style sheet again sometime.