how to force IE not to see "alt" in a <img> tag?

[essiw]

I have problems whit IE, I myself do have a mac computer so can't download IE. but since i live in the netherlands and more then 80% has a windows it is a problem. because IE sees "alt" the same as "title"
like:

<img src="http://www.searchengineworld.com/gfx/logo.png" alt="(search sites use this)" title="(little pop up comes here)">

since i want search sites to find my picture but i do not want IE to get a pop-up on that one, what should i do to prevent IE from doing that?

[tedster]

As far as I know you cannot prevent IE from doing their non-standard handling of the alt attribute. If it's there, IE will display it.

[encyclo]

If you want to merely suppress the display of the alt text as a tooltip in IE, you can simply use an empty

title

attribute:

<img src="/logo.png" alt="the alt text here" [b]title=""[/b]>

As for the hovering "image tool bar" to save an image (which appears on larger graphics in IE), you can add the following meta element to your page:

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="false">

[g1smd]

i haven't tried it, but I would expect the empty title attribute suggestion would fix it.

[tedster]

use an empty title attribute

Duh, that's a heads-smacker, encyclo. Pretty obvious now that you say it.

[essiw]

ah thanks that sounds pretty obvious to me too :)
but what is that image tool bar? something bad?

[g1smd]

It allows people to easily save the image to their computer.

The above meta tag stops the toolbar from appearing.