This was it! - neither title nor acronym would fit this situation.
Somewhere buried deeply within my notes I have another solution, but
this works well - thx, Bob
Mike Dougherty wrote:
> Are you opposed to using the title attribute?
> <a title='this text pops up on hover in most browsers'
> href='foo.htm'>Contact</a>
>
> directly changing the text is a behavior fit for javascript
>
> however, CSS would let you do this:
>
> <a href='foo.htm'>
> <span class='short'>Contact</span>
> <span class='long'>Our more descriptive location text</span>
> </a>
>
> a span.long { display: none; } /* normally don't display the long text */
> a:hover span.short { display: none; } /* when hovering, hide the short
> text */
> a:hover span.long { display: inline; } /* when hovering, show the long
> text */
>
> if you go this route, consider keyboard navigation doesn't invoke the
> :hover pseudo element.
> (also IE only allows :hover on <a> tags)
>
>
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