Re: alt text for links

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:53:11 +1100
To:	Cynthia Hamilton <subscribe(at)actionhost.net>, hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
References:	kmzydhek
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G'Day Cynthia

At 19:21 26/03/00 -0800, Cynthia Hamilton wrote:
>Is there any equivalent to alt tags for text links?  On images, when you
>mouseover, the text in the alt tag appears near the cursor.  I want to do
>the same thing for text links.  Is this possible?

Yes - its called a TITLE tag, and part of HTML 4.01.  Unfortunately it only 
works in the latest versions of IE.

<.A HREF="link" TITLE="Description of link">text<./A>


Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au

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