IMG Alt Tag Problems
Hello,
I am having some problems with the simplest of HTML tags: The Image Alt tag.
You can see the problem live at my website:
Easy Sig
I put an alternate text tag in the header, but for some reason, it's not showing.
Does anyone know why? Please..do tell me.
TQ!
AyntRyte posted this at 02:59 — 9th June 2005.
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It works in IE, Fx (maybe others) don't support it. Try adding:
title=Easy Signature Generator"
to the tag.
Roo posted this at 03:09 — 9th June 2005.
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Yes use can use both alt="Whatever" and title="Whatever"....those are valid for the image tag.
chrishirst posted this at 05:31 — 9th June 2005.
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it is alt attribute it is not a tag.
All browsers support it, IE incorrectly shows the content of the alt attribute as a "tool tip"
Busy posted this at 08:50 — 9th June 2005.
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An alt element (tag) is for displaying before the image is loaded or if the image doesn't load - nothing else
chrishirst posted this at 09:46 — 9th June 2005.
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Actually that's only partly correct
It is NOT an element OR a tag. It is an attribute of the![]()
tag and yes it is meant to be used for an alternative text display in user agents that do not render images.
Chris
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EGS posted this at 11:06 — 9th June 2005.
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Ok...so I guess everything is ok then!
Thanks.
timjpriebe posted this at 12:50 — 9th June 2005.
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Yep, you did it right, dynamite. Just IE does it wrong.
Unfortunately, due to IE displaying the alt attribute as a tooltip, I've been asked by clients in the past to remove it. Stupid IE...
Tim
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EGS posted this at 18:55 — 9th June 2005.
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Haha yeah...but strangely enough, I've seen some alt tags perform as title tags in FireFox. Thus the reason why I even bothered asking this silly question.
Roo posted this at 20:11 — 9th June 2005.
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Opera browsers will display the title as a tooltip on both images and links. It's a good idea to include the title attribute for accessability.
robfenn posted this at 08:04 — 17th June 2005.
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I'm not sure about accesibility, W3C validation accepts ALT tags. The partially sighted or blind users that have a screen reader would be able to read ALT tags too.
-Rob
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