Re: a title?
by "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed(at)jaedworks.com>
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At 4:29 PM -0700 6/27/2000, Sue Bailey wrote:
>A friend of mine has just discovered the title attribute for the a tag.
>I had never heard of this until tonight. For anyone else who doesn't
>know, in IE5 (not NN4.7, not tested in anything else) attached to an a
>tag, it pops up a little box like alt for imgs. This is so cute, there
>has to be a problem with it. Am I allowed to use it under everyone's
>spec?
It's part of HTML 4.0, and under HTML 4.0 you can attach a title attribute
to just about anything that doesn't fight back. Especially useful for links.
(Insert usual caveats about how it shouldn't be used for
essential-to-the-page information because many browsers do nothing with it.)
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jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed(at)jaedworks.com
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