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insert a new line in alt tag

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aSDDSasdas

aSDDSasdas

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Jul 12, 2006
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hello Everyone,
is it possible to add new lines in the alt tag .. as /n doesnt seem to work inside the alt tag ..
im posting the code below


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "<html>
<head>
<title>Server</title>
<script type="text/javascript">

function writeText(txt)
{
document.getElementById("desc").innerHTML=txt
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<img src ="Lilies.jpg" width ="545" height ="526" alt="Bratislava Server" usemap="#lilies" />

<map id ="lilies" name="lilies">
<area shape ="rect" coords ="0,0,482,426" onMouseOver="writeText('Bla bla bla')"
href ="Blue hills.jpg" target ="_default" alt="lilies /n on /n the /n mountain"/>
</map>



<p id="desc"></p>

</body>
</html>


thank u in advance

regards
sonia
 
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Hi

[ol]
[li]No [tt]alt[/tt] tag exists. Maybe you are talking about [tt]alt[/tt] attribute.[/li]
[li]Line breaks in [tt]alt[/tt] attributes are not too important. Are you sure you want to use [tt]alt[/tt] and not [tt]title[/tt] ?[/li]
[li]No, you can not introduce line breaks in [tt]alt[/tt] or [tt]title[/tt]. But Explorer preserves embedded line breaks.
Code: 
<area shape ="rect" coords ="0,0,482,426" onMouseOver="writeText('Bla bla bla')"
href ="Blue hills.jpg" target ="_default" alt="lilies
on
the
mountain"/>
[/li]
[li]By the way, "/n" has no meaning on any system. Maybe you thought to "\n".[/li]
[/ol]

Feherke.
 
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Hi,
im supposed to have a diagram with Servers and workstations where when i have the mouse upon the Server image the Characteristics of this Server are stated (eg : server name,CPU type,MB,OS,date,RAM,....) .

i want to have the information stated one beloe the other. else its difficult to read for the user.

I found out that it could be done with the alt attribute.

is there any alternative for this ?
 
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hi,

im new to this ..but plz may i know wht is this tooltip n when is it exactly used for .. as far as i understood it is also used to display messages on images,text....
In my case i have one image n in this image there are many servers...so with the help of x,y co-ordinates i should be able to point out the messages for every server .
with dhtml tooltip i find its getting more complex.i downloaded some of the scripts .n there are many javascripts combined...since i am new to javascripts ,dhtml.
if u could briefly tell me wht it does would be very helpfull

thank u in advance

regards
sonia
 
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The diagram would be the data in the image map - NO
or the information in the alt attribute ? -YES this is wht i want.
 
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