- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:03:49 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Schalk Neethling wrote: > > Question, would an element with rel="help" and a title="Help text" make > sense and be valid as a JavaScript hook for tooltips? > > Does not match the usage as described by the WHAT-WG > (http://developers.whatwg.org/links.html#link-type-help) exactly, but > close enough? On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > If there is no actual hyperlink, using a link relation does not make > sense. Indeed. On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Schalk Neethling wrote: > > I heard some mention of using the data-* attributes so, something like: > <a href="" data-tooltip="Some help text"></a> > > or > > <input type="text" data-tooltip="Some help text" /> > > Would you agree that this is the better option? If what you want is a tooltip, then the title="" attribute is probably your best bet. No need for any scripting. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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