Floating text over photos

[StokeLee]

Sorry about the strange heading, im really not sure what to call it.

This is what i want to do.

Im going to change my .mac website, and use the advanced html option.

How can i display a name, or comment, if i hover my mouse over a photo.

What is the html i need to use.

Thank you

Lee

 

[Oryan]

Do you mean a tool tip or actually showing some text somewhere else on the page?

 

[Regular_John]

<img src="images/happyguy.gif" .... alt="Happy Smiling Guy">

you just need to include alt="something here" in your image tags.

 

[zosont]

<img src="images/happyguy.gif" .... alt="Happy Smiling Guy">

you just need to include alt="something here" in your image tags.

This is not true, the correct attribute is title, the alt attribute is for alternative text - text meant as a possible replacement for the image to make it accessible to non-graphic browsers (which incidentally include search engines).
The fact that some (but certainly not all) browsers display alt text as a tooltip is actually an error on their part.

<img src="photo.jpg" title="tooltip text here" alt="alternative text here" />

Hope this helps

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

The fact that some (but certainly not all) browsers display alt text as a tooltip is actually an error on their part.

<img src="photo.jpg" title="tooltip text here" alt="alternative text here" />

That is right... and why I often put the same text into both the alt and the title attributes, just to be on the safe side... 🙂

Like this (just steaing zosont's example 😉):

<img src="photo.jpg" title="tooltip text here" alt="tooltip text here" />

That should work also for the large, stupid majority of browser users... 😉

 

[Regular_John]

oops, silly me coding the browsers people use again 😛

damn M$ teaching bad habits

 

[StokeLee]

Cool cheers guys,

I want it to show either a comment about the photo, or the person/s name.

 

[JGruber]

You can always get all fancy and use overLIB to achive this... but that is a little more advanced.