How to give Tooltip to Image or Text

[vaidehiphansalkar]

I have an world map image on which I want to Locate some areas by a pointer, how to do that? Is java scripting required for that.

Thanks
Dipali

[opifex]

just add hotspots with an alt text

[vaidehiphansalkar]

How to add hotspots with an alt text? will it be possible in front page or Dreamweaver

Dipali

[opifex]

have to admit that I use a very old version of Dreamweaver .... but can draw my hotspots directly on the images ... check your tutorial

[penders]

Hotspots are also called image maps, and in HTML you could do something like...

<img src="worldmap.jpg" alt="Worldmap" title="Map of the World" usemap="#world"> 
<map name="world"> 
<area href="uk.html" alt="United Kingdom" title="United Kingdom" shape="poly" coords="150,217,190,257,150,297,110,257"> 
<area href="us.html" alt="United States" title="United States" shape="poly" coords="10,20,100,20,120,100,5,110"> 
More areas for each country... 
</map> 

I think you'll need the title attribute, rather than just the alt text to display popups cross-browser (ie. in Firefox)

The coords are the pixel coordinates on your world map image. Using shape="poly" you can have complex multi-sided shapes, as you'd probably need for countries on a map. Other possibilities for shape are "circle" and "rect".

I guess this is what Dreamweaver will do, but will just make it easier to mark out the areas (coords).

[g1smd]

The alt text only pops up in IE - and that is a bug.

You need the title attribute for this instead.