Alt tags not working

[Stationery-Direct]

Further to this post: http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=147113

...why aren't my alt tags working on hover?

Any ideas?

 

[ooh]

Alt tags aren't supposed to work on hover (alt text is to provide replacement text for an image to be used by the browser in the event of the image not being displayable for whatever reason). I think Internet Explorer does use alt tags in that way which is actually incorrect. If you want text to come up on hover give the HTML element a title attribute, eg. :

<h1 title="pop up text here">Hover over me</h1>

 

[fisicx]

Alt attributes (not tags) aren't suppost to show when you hover. Alt is the abbreviation for 'alternate text' - what displays if the image isn't displaying. If you want the tooltip you need to use title:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.1.3

Example:
<a href="some.gif" title="Image of xxx" alt="Image of xxx>Anchor text/image</a>

 

[Stationery-Direct]

What I don't get is those 3 pages are EXACTLY the same code wise, yet the alt text only shows up on hover on the last link in the other thread in my browser, so why not the other 2 also?

 

[Stationery-Direct]

<a href="some.gif" title="Image of xxx" alt="Image of xxx>Anchor text/image</a>

Oh well, will just do what you have suggested, many thanks.

 

[Stationery-Direct]

All sorted, thanks guys.