georg, as usual, you're unbelievable. On Oct 4, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
> Ron Zisman wrote: >> http://www.musiccityyo.org/gallery.html > >> i preparing a photo galley for a small site for kids. the images >> don't have captions, but i want interested people to be able to >> identify the images to be able to order prints from the photographer. >> i know i could just put the image number into a caption, but >> would rather it no be there unless needed. > > Demo: <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/rz/test_08_1004.html> > > First row show captions in hover. > (IE6 needs more help than I've included in the example for that one to > work, but other browsers will do fine.) > With such a hidden caption the alt-attribute on images can be left > empty. this certainly comes up strong and quick on mouseover. but it also demonstrates a small problem. as people run their mouse across the images to click to larger images, the numbers come up right away, which is a little distracting. > > Second row has title-attributes - tootips. Title-attributes can not > replace text in alt-attributes. this seems to take a little more 'intention' for the tooltip to come up > > Note that IE/win is buggy and presents text in alt-attributes as > tooltips by default - unless there's a non-empty title-attribute in > which case it'll present the title-text instead. you might ask why i didn't do this little experiment myself instead of running to mama. i'm such a slug! thanks georg, --ron > >> what is a tooltip (it shows on mouseover) and would that work >> using the title attribute on each image? > > A title-attribute is where you can place short pieces of extra, > non-vital, information, and hope browsers present it on hover. > Nearly all browsers do present title-text as tooltip - after a short > delay, but _how_ browsers present tooltip is outside our (CSS) control > and the tooltip text is often hard to read. > > regards > Georg > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/