Alt on text???

liunx · Jan 9, 2008

I'm sure that somehow you can make alt text appear over hyperlinks....but how do you do it? I tried adding the alt="ertreter" bit in the href tag, but that didn't work. Is there some kind of javascript or something I need? 
 
Andythis should work fo rya 
 
<HTML><HEAD> 
 
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript> 
 
function showtip(current,e,text) 
{ 
 
if (document.all) 
 
{ 
thetitle=text.split(' ') 
 
if (thetitle.length>1) 
 
{ 
thetitles='' 
 
 
for (i=0;i<thetitle.length;i++) 
thetitles+=thetitle 
current.title=thetitles 
} 
else 
{current.title=text} 
} 
else if (document.layers) 
{ 
document.tooltip.document.write('<layer bgColor="white" style="border:1px solid black;font-size:12px;">'+text+'</layer>') 
document.tooltip.document.close() 
document.tooltip.left=e.pageX+5 
document.tooltip.top=e.pageY+5 
document.tooltip.visibility="show" 
} 
 
} 
 
 
function hidetip() 
{ 
if (document.layers) 
document.tooltip.visibility="hidden" 
} 
 
</SCRIPT> 
 
<STYLE type=text/css> 
A {COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: none} 
A:hover {COLOR: orange; TEXT-DECORATION: none} 
</STYLE> 
 
</HEAD> 
 
 
<BODY> 
<DIV id=tooltip style="VISIBILITY: hidden; POSITION: absolute"></DIV> 
<A href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"link.html" onmouseover="showtip(this,event,'this is a working tooltip')" onmouseout=hidetip()>Run your mouse over here !!!</a> 
</BODY> 
 
</HTML>The code for having an alt tag over a hypertext link is title. Use it the same way you would as a alt. 
 
For example: 
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"home.html" title="Go Home"> 
 
I haven't tested it in NS or IE 4.x-, but it works in IE 5.xand you could use this for any plain text: 
 
<acronym title="Home">Home</acronym>Wow, that isa great 
 
Thanks everyone for your help I never knew you could do it to normal text too...lol 
 
AndyOriginally posted by BloodGhst 
The code for having an alt tag over a hypertext link is title. Use it the same way you would as a alt. 
 
For example: 
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"home.html" title="Go Home"> 
 
I haven't tested it in NS or IE 4.x-, but it works in IE 5.x 
does not work in NS4.77 but it does in NS 6.1 
 
and 
<acronym title="Home">Home</acronym> 
doesn't work in NS4.77 either but it does in 6.1Originally posted by scoutt 
 
does not work in NS4.77 but it does in NS 6.1 
 
and 
<acronym title="Home">Home</acronym> 
doesn't work in NS4.77 either but it does in 6.1 
 
That's good to know. Thanks.

Alt on text???

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