Title Attribute

[tmcneil]

Im using a title attribute as a tool tip for a select element inside a td. The tool tip does not show up in IE. If I place the title attribute to the td, I get a tool tip, but not when hovering over the select elements. Any ideas? Is there a different attribute tag that I should be using?

Thanks,
Todd

 

[j4606]

Title as a tool tip is supported on most elements on ie and alt is a tool tip for images. Unfortunatly for you IE doesn't support (title attribute/property
of <select> elements as a tool tip)AFAIK, but Mozilla and most other browsers do.
If you really need it you could try javascript.

 

[traingamer]

The tool tip does not show up in IE.

Much has been written about this. IE chooses not to implement that specification.

Greg
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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Title as a tool tip is supported on most elements on ie and alt is a tool tip for images.

Not quite. The 'alt' attribute is [!]not[/!] a 'tool tip for images'. It is designed to give a brief description of an image (usually for the benefit of those with images disabled)... it just so happens that IE will use it as a tool tip if no 'title' attribute is present.

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[tmcneil]

Well, I appreciate all the responses and was hoping the result would be better. I'll find some javascript to implement a tool tip and I think I saw one on this forum.

Thanks,
Todd