alt="text"

[Sothpaw]

when will Firefox support the alt's?
i have a series of images that i want the discriptive text to be viewed when hovering over it with the alt="text"
IE supports it just fine.
is this something that is going to be phased out (depreciated)
or will Firefox support this sometime in the future?

[encyclo]

Firefox supports

alt

just fine, just that is doesn't do what you think it does. ;) The

alt

attribute is for the text which would replace the image when the latter is absent or not viewable by the user, nothing in the specification mentions a mouseover effect.

You can use the

title

attribute in addition to the

alt

attribute to obtain the desired effect.

See also this concurrent thread: [webmasterworld.com...]

[Fotiman]

Just wanted to repeat what encyclo said. To show these little "tooltips", what you want is the title attribute, not the alt attribute. The alt attribute is the alternative text that will be displayed when images are not available (for example, users with images disabled or using a browser that does not support images like Lynx).

[Sothpaw]

thanks a ton.
question answered and valuable info learned.