Name
TITLE — NN n/a IE 3 HTML 3.2
Synopsis
TITLE=”advisoryText"
Optional
An advisory
description of the element. For HTML elements that produce visible
content on the page, Internet Explorer 4 renders the content of the
TITLE
attribute as a tooltip when the cursor rests
on the element for a moment. For example, the table-related
COL
element does not display content, so its
TITLE
attribute is merely advisory. To generate
tooltips in tables, assign TITLE
attributes to
elements such as TABLE
, TR
,
TH
, or TD
.
The appearance of the tooltip is governed by the operating system version of the browser. In Windows, the tooltip is the standard small, light-yellow rectangle; on the Mac, the tooltip displays as a cartoon bubble in the manner of the MacOS bubble help system. If no attribute is specified, the tooltip does not display. Although IE 3 implements this attribute, no tooltip appears.
You can assign any descriptive text you like to this attribute. Not everyone will see it, however, so do not put mission-critical information here. Future or special-purpose browsers might use this attribute’s information to read information about the link to vision-impaired web surfers.
Although the compatibility listing for this attribute dates the attribute back to Internet Explorer 3 and HTML 3.2, it is newly ascribed to many elements starting with IE 4 and HTML 4.0.
Example
<B TITLE="United States of America">U.S.A.</B>
Value
Any string of characters. The string must be inside a matching pair of (single or ...
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