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RE: "alt" attribute required by XHTML 1.0

From: Carr, Jeff <Jeff.Carr@lrn.va.gov>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:16:06 -0500
Message-ID: <1DE111E80092D311A0D100A0C9AD8B4901281173@lrnestexc1.lrn.va.gov>
To: "'Matt Brooks'" <matt@mbjlp.com>, Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
Cc: www-html <www-html@w3.org> 
What I do is set both the title and alt attributes.  e.g. alt="Image of a
brick." title=""  I have not tested this on any browsers before the 4.0
browsers, but it does not display a tooltip on any major browsers.

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 No, because "" produces an empty (but displayed) tooltip in some browsers.
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 - Matt
Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2001 13:16:21 GMT

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