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Post May 12th, 2008, 7:19 am

My alt tags text on my web sites are not appearing on mouse hover in FF. The appear just fine in IE7. Any direction on why this occurs would be appreciated.
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Post May 12th, 2008, 7:19 am

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Post May 12th, 2008, 7:32 am

alt tags are not meant to be displayed. They are for screen-readers and stuff; IE shows them however. If you want the same effect in FF then you need to use the "title" attribute.

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<img title="foobar" src="foo.png" alt="foobar" />
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Post May 12th, 2008, 7:33 am

As usual, that's because Firefox interprets the HTML correctly. The alt attribute is only supposed to display, when the image can't be found. For the popup text to appear, use the title attribute:
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<img src="images/pic.jpg" alt="Picture of something" title="This is a picture of something"/>
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Post May 13th, 2008, 5:17 am

Thanks for the replies.
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Post May 15th, 2008, 1:22 pm

thnx

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