Jean T. Anderson wrote:
Laura Stewart wrote:
For Derby-1842, I updated the alternate text (aka Alt text). The Alt
text appears when you hover your mouse pointer over a graphic image in
Internet Explorer but not in Firefox.
Does anyone know why?
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1842
A google search popped up this reference which says firefox uses the alt
tag as intended:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp
Look at the section titled "Mozilla Firefox and the alt Attribute." It
says "title" enables mouseover comments, so I tried that with one of
your files and it worked (mouseover now displays the info); however, it
truncates everything past the first .
On Safari, mouseover displays nothing when "alt" is used, but shows the
complete text when "title" is used.
So it sounds like the tags should be used as intended.
alt for the alternative text
title for a title of the image.
In firefox one can see the alternate text by right clicking on the image
and selecting properties.
Dan.
