- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:21:12 +0000
- To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Nikodem wrote:
>
> img[title]
> {
> hint: attr(title)
This construct is better known as a tooltip.
>
> The yellow hint shown after hovering a link with title attr etc.
>
Yellow is just the default colour used in certain software.
From a styling point of view, isn't this really just a generated
content box, that could be described with normal CSS constructs.
In terms of making the tooltip look like a platform tooltip (generally a
good idea, but designers don't seem to like scrollbars, or buttons,
looking like the standard ones), http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/ seems to
be suggesting that the generated box should have a property something
like appearence: tooltip.
As an alternative to tooltip, "info", rather than "hint" seems to be the
preferred CSS terminology.
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