IE vs Firefox for alt tags

I developed the habit of describing some pics with only an alt tag, because the words appear when you hover your mouse over the pic when using IE. But I have since noticed that they don't appear when I use firefox.

What is the general consensus about this method?

Darren.

 

Alt attributes are only supposed to be displayed when images cannot be displayed. IE's handling of alt attributes is incorrect. Firefox and other browsers handle it correctly. If you want that little tooltip to appear every time use the title attribute instead.

 

Damn Stymiee you're still beating me to the punch on answering questions like this over here like you were at SPF.

You must spend more time on forums than I do, if that is possible.

On the topic of this thread, as Stymiee stated MSIE gets this all wrong. ALT attributes are only for missing images. If you want little tooltip captions to appear, you need to use the TITLE attribute instead.

 

Thanks Guys .

Darren.

 

I do need to get out more. That's for sure.

 

Well if you were here in Maine, I'd invite you out for a round of disk golf.

 

In Firefox it displays the title attribute, so in an image tag you would do something like:

<img src="image.jpg" alt="Image" [b]title="Hover Text"[/b] />

Code (markup):

I'm not sure if that was already said or not, but there's my information.