I read in another post that since text popups for action hotspots don’t work on the web, that you should modify the HTML attributes, on the ‘picture/icon’ and put in a line like…
ALT = “This will work on the web”
So far this has been perfect, however, i would like to have some special characters like a Carriage Return and tab as well. Naturally I tried \n and \t, but they display as such.
Anybody done this before? Thanks John
Subject: How to put in special characters in ALT
No can do – neither the alt not the title attribute support formatting. That being said, there is a JS workaround that can replace your alt/title with a DHTML “pop-up” (a div that appears on mouseover) tool tip. Dustin Diaz uses the technique on his site:
ADDED: The dealy you’re looking for is called “Sweet Titles”.
Subject: RE: How to put in special characters in ALT
thats some piece of code. I’ll have to spend some time to understand what he is doing. While it looks great, I could seem to find out how he is doing it. Maybe I can put this in place the next phase of the project.
John
Subject: RE: How to put in special characters in ALT
While its true that the ALT attribute do not support formatting, I believe a new line can be inserted using and a tab by
like so:
<img width=64 height=64 alt="Hello
World" src=“c:\image001.gif”>
This does work on IE 6, not sure if its supported on all web browsers.
Subject: RE: How to put in special characters in ALT
Thanks for the response. I was hoping there was an easy way to put it into the alt tag. The method that Stan gave look really nice, the Javascipt in there is just a little over my head.
John
Subject: RE: How to put in special characters in ALT
Must thank Stan for the link to Dustin Diaz’s site. I also use WZ tooltip from
In fact if all you need is to just enter a new line, you can use the special chracters
( for a tab) like so:
alt = "My first line
My Second line"
Agreed it does not look as jazzy as the solution provided in the above 2 links 