IE8 and the Alt tag

usasportstraining · #1 Nov 3rd 2009, 10:48 am

I've heard complaints from people about their browser not allowing the title to display. It seems to be IE8 related. Interesting.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...9-a352eb9ee995

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx

Quote:

The alt attribute is no longer displayed as the image tooltip when the browser is running in IE8 mode. Instead, the target of the longDesc attribute is used as the tooltip if present; otherwise, the title is displayed. The alt attribute is still used as the Microsoft Active Accessibility name, and the title attribute is used as the fallback name only if alt is not present.

drhowarddrfine · #2 Nov 3rd 2009, 12:50 pm

That's correct. IE8 is finally doing what they were supposed to be doing years ago. Some browsers follow the standard. Microsoft does not.

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