Re: Alt effect for text links

David,

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for.  I KNEW I had done it
before, and this is how.  Thanks Mary and Charles for your suggestion as
well.  I'm trying to stay away from deprecated tags so would prefer not to
use the <span> tag although I would have used it in this case if no
alternative existed.

Thanks everyone,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com
"Making the Internet Easy"

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Voth" <davidvoth(at)shaw.ca>
To: "Keith D Sellars" <keith(at)webgraffix.com>; <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: Alt effect for text links


> This can be done with HTML: in the link add the "title" attribute, ie
> <a href="contact.html" title="Links to Contact Page">contact</a>. The
> title attribute can also be used in other places such as with images
> to have text appear when a person moves the mouse over the image
>
> David
>
> At 11:23 PM -0400 18/6/03, Keith D Sellars wrote:
> >How do I create alternate text for links?  What I am trying to do is
> >duplicate the effect of an "alt" tag for an image, but do it for text
links.
> >I want a popup description of the link to appear when a user mouses over
the
> >text link.  I've seen this done and thought I had done it myself before,
but
> >cannot duplicate it.
> >
> >Anyone have some suggestions?  I wanted to do it without using javascript
if
> >possible, but will go that route if needed.  I was thinking some type of
> >mouseover effect or something would work, but am not sure...
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Keith D Sellars
> >WebGraffix
> >www.webgraffix.com
> >"Making the Internet Easy"
>
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