Hover text for table cells - is that possible?

[Dezine]

I was wondering if it is possible to have some alternative text appear when hovering over a table cell (with some text but no hyperlink in it), in the same way as the ALT tag works for images by showing text when hovering over the image. Is this at all possible?

If plain HTML cannot do this, does anyone know how to attain this result with Javascript?

[Span]

Actually, IE/Win is the only browser in which image ALT text pops up.. it's a bug.. ALT text was meant to describe the image for users with text browsers or MM browsers with images turned off.

But there's the title attribute. Can be used in almost every tag. In your case: <td title="Welcome to the forums, Dezine">

[Dezine]

Wow, that's simple and exactly what I was looking for. Many thanks. Also thanks for the HTML welcome :)