Mouse over table cell --> A "alt" like style tab appears

[Eric Layman]

Hi everyone.

An image allows alt attribute. When mouse over images with alt attribute, a
small yellow popup would appear besides the mouse cursor.

How to replicate this behaviour using a table cell instead?

Is this even possible?

Thanks.

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[Jonathan N. Little]

Eric Layman wrote:

Hi everyone.

An image allows alt attribute. When mouse over images with alt attribute, a
small yellow popup would appear besides the mouse cursor.

Well no it doesn't...it does in IE, and really old NN4! ALT is supposed
to display as text when the image resource is unavailable. For the
'Tooltip' modern browsers can (but are not obligated to) display with
the TITLE attribute.

<img src="myimage.jpg" alt="my image missing" title="The tooltip message">

>
How to replicate this behaviour using a table cell instead?

<td title="Some tooltip message">Blah...
But as I said modern browsers do display TITLE as a tooltip but are not
obligated to, so your can put auxiliary info in the TITLE attribute but
I would not put *essential* info there!

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On Mar 4, 12:12 pm, "Eric Layman" <namyalcire[at no spam]gmail.com>
wrote:

An image allows alt attribute. When mouse over images with alt attribute, a
small yellow popup would appear besides the mouse cursor.

How to replicate this behaviour using a table cell instead?

By using a custom script. You may look at
<http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/index.htmlmaybe you like
something. Each script has a list of browsers where it's tested to be
working.

As a note: popups with data from alt, title, href attributes differ
pretty much by different browsers (does or doesn't popup, how does
look). "small yellow popup for alt" is IE's feature AFAICT.

[Toby A Inkster]

Eric Layman wrote:

An image allows alt attribute. When mouse over images with alt attribute, a
small yellow popup would appear besides the mouse cursor.

This is an MSIE-only "feature". The alt attribute is supposed to only be
displayed when the image cannot be displayed.

The correct attribute to use for such tooltips is title. Although title
doesn't *have* to be displayed as a tooltip, in practise, all current
mainstream browsers do -- including MSIE. (When both title and alt are
available, MSIE will show the title, not the alt!) Whatsmore, the title
attribute is available for pretty much every element -- not just images.

Examples:

<img src="/path/to/image.png"
alt="Text for when image is unavailable"
title="Tooltip text">
<a href="http://www.google.co.uk"
title="The Google Search Engine">Google</a>
<table title="Sales Figures for January 2007"
summary="Sales have increased ten-fold. Hurrah!">
<caption>Jan 2007</caption>
<!-- DATA GOES HERE -->
</table>

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