How do I program TOOL TIP-like functions into my HTML pages?

You know those little pop-up boxes that appear when you put your cursor over an icon on a GUI? I'd like to add those to the bottons on my site because I'm getting complaints about the text from some being too hard to read... How do I do this?

I'm using Dreamweaver MX (not 2004)...

Thanks in advance.

simply click on the button, open up the properties menu, and fill
in the Alt field with the text you want to display.

oh -- and if you're not using the interface, just add this code
inside the img tag --

Thanks very much!

no problem

you can also use title="" in the a tag for text links (and it works with images too)..



Hey, Unflux, as you can use both ALT and TITLE tax on something like...



Which would show up on the tooltip? (Yeah, I know, I could just copy+paste that into a HTML file and see for myself, but I'm lazy, lol.

Doing the same thing in manual coding, the alt tag always seems to take precedence over the title tag. I don't have any documentation to back me up on that, but from experience, the alt tag will be the one that displays.

Cool (I still haven't actually tested it though, lol).

The TITLE attribute is the defined by the standard to server many purposes, and tool-tips is one of them. Unfortunately, support in some browsers is weak. I considered using it as a way to provide dictionary defintions to some works.

Another option is setting the visibility in CSS for relatively position windows (which opens up a whole world of creative possibilities).

title will work for Opera, Moz, and IE. alt should be used if they have images off.

Well ... here's some more advanced version of tooltips ..and others goodies

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

Example:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicinde ... ooltip.htm

Hope this helps you

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about when I said, "another option is setting the visibility in CSS for relatively position windows...". Its cool stuff eh?

Thanks for sending the link. I thought about doing this, but never got around to coding it.