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Why don't my Alt tags work within my EZ-Pages?

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5 Oct 2009, 8:41 AM
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Why don't my Alt tags work within my EZ-Pages?

Why Alt tags don't work within EZ-Pages?

Unless I am doing something wrong, they don't...

Ideas?

Thank you.

8 Oct 2009, 8:06 AM
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Re: Why don't my Alt tags work within my EZ-Pages?

Did I post this in the wrong sub forum?

8 Oct 2009, 11:43 AM
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Re: Why don't my Alt tags work within my EZ-Pages?

When I put an ALT attribute in an IMG tag by hand-coding the HTML, it works fine for me.
EZ-Pages doesn't alter your HTML. It simply outputs whatever HTML you've entered, directly to the browser.

8 Oct 2009, 12:28 PM
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Re: Why don't my Alt tags work within my EZ-Pages?

Here is the answer:

In the past, some webmasters have used the ALT text description as a sort of pop-up tooltip on images, to add funny captions to family photos, or advertise a sale on certain products. That was because the TITLE attribute wasn't widely supported. It is now and Netscape 6.x browsers interpret the W3C specifications rather strictly - ALT text no longer "pops up" when you run your mouse over an image. You have to use a TITLE attribute for that.
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol6/html_no1.htm

I guess I was stuck in the past....

The title tag works fine in EZ-Pages to pop the code on mouseover.

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