Easiest way to associate <alt> style text to a <td>?? 3

[AndyB21]

Is there an easy way to use the <img alt=&quot;&quot;> style tag, where text is displayed when you hover over an object - to the contents of a <td> - which itself may be text or an empty cell?

Cheers.

 

[Bentley22]

you could use javascript to display the text in a hidden layer when the user mouse's over your td &quot;The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us&quot;
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

 

[AndyB21]

Having never used layers, never mind hidden ones, would it be too much to ask for an example code snippet or a URL where I can see this being employed?

 

[MrGrey]

You can use the IE 'title' attribute. <td title=&quot;hello&quot;>..

Tom

 

[Bentley22]

Well darn, I didn't know that.

&quot;The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us&quot;
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

 

[AndyB21]

That's the ticket! Cheers Mr Grey. Is that a bit of an &quot;IE Only&quot; tag though or is it just new?, as it's not in my invaluable &quot;web design in a nutshell&quot; book?

 

[MrGrey]

Glad this was useful.

It's actually in the HTML 4.01 specification and new versions of Netscape support it too.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.3

Cheers,

Tom