Re: How do I do this?

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:38:17 -0700, Karin Christensen <karin(at)imagecyte.com> 
wrote:
>
> Is there a limit as to how long the title can be, and will it always be 
> one
> line long or can it have multiple lines?
>
> Karin
>

Hi Karin,

I did not find any reference concerning the length of a title-attribute so 
I guess it could be as long as you like. However it would be a bad idea 
putting long descriptions into this atrribute. This would disctract both 
the reader and the listener (when using speech-capable user agents).
If your term needs further explanation you could link to a page describing 
your term in detail (like the longdesc-attribute for images [1]): <a 
href="explanation.html"><acronym title="blabla - please click for detailed 
information">BLA</acronym></a>.

Some browsers will automatically break long lines in the "tooltip". If you 
want to put your own line-breaks into the tooltip you can use the unicode 
for line-feed: &#10; This does work in I.E. and as far as I remember in 
Netscape 6.+ but not in Opera, where you will see the unicode string 
instead.


jens

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#adef-longdesc-IMG

HWG hwg-techniques mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters @ IWA