Screen Tips

[Bill gold]

Talk about incompatibility.
IE6 does not display my screen tips fomr my interactive buttons while
Firefox does.
Both browsers seem fine with regular hyperlinks
Makes no sense.
Site can be seen at nytechwriter.com

IE6 FP 2003 XP Home

 

[Steve Easton]

They show here on my IE 6.

Try clearing your browser history and temporary internet files and then
check.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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[Bill gold]

I used IE 6 Internet Options to clearhistory, delete cookies and delete files
I still get the screen tips from the other hyperlinks but not the
i,nteractive buttons

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

I see all of them in IE 6




|I used IE 6 Internet Options to clearhistory, delete cookies and delete files
| I still get the screen tips from the other hyperlinks but not the
| i,nteractive buttons
| --
| bill
|
|
| "Steve Easton" wrote:
|
| > They show here on my IE 6.
| >
| > Try clearing your browser history and temporary internet files and then
| > check.
| >
| > --
| > Steve Easton
| > Microsoft MVP FrontPage
| > 95isalive
| > This site is best viewed............
| > ........................with a computer
| >
| > | > > Talk about incompatibility.
| > > IE6 does not display my screen tips fomr my interactive buttons while
| > > Firefox does.
| > > Both browsers seem fine with regular hyperlinks
| > > Makes no sense.
| > > Site can be seen at nytechwriter.com
| > >
| > > IE6 FP 2003 XP Home
| > >
| > > --
| > > bill
| >
| >
| >

 

[Andrew Murray]

Tool tips work perfectly well for me in IE 6.0 I see there is a difference
in what IE displays in tool tips vs Firefox. I believe it has something to
do with your use of "Alt=" and "title=" attributes on the buttons.

I get one lot of tool tips in Firefox these are more descriptive than that
in IE which is just repeating what the actual button says.

Unfortunately having identified the problem I can't suggest a solution....

 

[Murray]

There are two attributes - alt and title. The former is *supposed* to only
show when the visitor has graphics disabled in the brower. IE mistakenly
shows it anyhow. No other browser does. The second is what one would want
to use for "tooltips". If both attributes have values, only the title
attribute will be shown. IE luckily does this one right.

 

[Bill gold]

--
bill

There are two attributes - alt and title. The former is *supposed* to only
show when the visitor has graphics disabled in the brower. IE mistakenly
shows it anyhow. No other browser does. The second is what one would want
to use for "tooltips". If both attributes have values, only the title
attribute will be shown. IE luckily does this one right.

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Murray
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right murray

You are a gem.
Interactive buttons are therfroe deeply horked and insupporable

 

[Murray]

Thanks!

 

[Andrew Murray]

The problem is the "tooltip" is related to a link, not to the image (as with
"alt" text which describes what the graphic is, if graphics are turned off),
and "tooltip" in Firefox is displaying what the "title" says, which I assume
is what the "tooltip" field in the hyperlink dialogue box asks for?

 

[Andrew Murray]

--
bill



You are a gem.
Interactive buttons are therfroe deeply horked and insupporable

Otherwise, I find they are an excellent feature, if you don't use tool tips!

 

[Murray]

The title attribute is valid on nearly any HTML element. It works as
desired on links or graphics. Yes - that's the tooltip field.

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Murray
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The problem is the "tooltip" is related to a link, not to the image (as
with "alt" text which describes what the graphic is, if graphics are
turned off), and "tooltip" in Firefox is displaying what the "title" says,
which I assume is what the "tooltip" field in the hyperlink dialogue box
asks for?