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Alt tag
Name: Jamie_McCoy Date: July 16, 2004 at 07:45:29 Pacific OS: XP Pro 5.1 CPU/Ram: Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
You wouldn't want to depend on the ALT tag for any kind of visual effect. It is too browser-dependent, and only meant to provide a way for you to substitute text for an image in case the browser is not image-capable.
To achieve the affect, just make a DIV with absolute or relative positioning, and style display: none. Then when the user mouses over your link, run a small javascript that switches the display to display: block. OnMouseOut, switch the display back to display: none.
-SN
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Response Number 6
Name: safeTsurfa Date: July 17, 2004 at 03:45:02 Pacific
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"is their a way to apply an alt in a text link using html, or is it only for images"
Yes, write it into the link tag as usual, substituting alt= with title=.
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