Alt is displayed in serif?

[Arno_Adams]

It's not very important...

But if I replace images with their alt attributes using FireFox 1.0 & Webdeveloper Toolbar the text is in Times Roman while everything else is Arial as defined in my stylesheet. Anybody have an explanation for that?

TIA, AA

[SuzyUK]

AA

strange one...have you got the Arial font style set on the body element, or the individual elements?

[rjohara]

You've discovered an example of browser behavior that is clearly underspecified in the W3C standards. Jukka Korpela's definitive pages on alt text design [cs.tut.fi] describe some of this variation; there is no way around it at present, as far as I know. It isn't really the browser's fault: the standards should specify more clearly how alt text is to be displayed and styled (same style as the parent element, I would say).

[ahmedtheking]

That's it! It's the browser's default!