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***Mozilla Firefox and the alt Attribute***

If you use the alt attribute in Firefox on images and image maps the text 
will not show on mouse-over as in other browsers.

Firefox uses the alt attribute the way it's meant to be used, like an 
alternative text if the image won't load, not as a mouse-over text.

Firefox does support mouse-over comments on images or image maps if you use 
a title attribute in the <img> tag.

E.g. <img src="image.gif" alt="bla" title="bla bla bla"

Hope this provides an answer :-)

Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anne Pemberton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Veterans Day


> Thanks, Diane,
>
> According to the stats, I don't have many users from Foxfire, and wonder 
> why their browser does not pick up the alt tag information. The alt tag 
> information was put there specifically for the blind and those who travel 
> the net without displaying pictures. Dreammaker does not have a place to 
> includ the title information - it will require (ugh) hand coding.
>
> But, thanks for the heads-up!
>
> Anne 

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