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"Tool tip" on hover?

Sent by Curtis Clark on 2 January 2005 18:06


on 2005-01-02 09:02 Portman wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to make a "tool tip" appear over a 
> link on hover with css?  I have searched online but cannot find anything.

Modern browsers display a "tooltip" for elements with the title= 
attribute, e.g. <a href="http://example.com" title="off-site 
link">Example Domain</a>

IE will also do the same with alt= (which is not valid for <a>), but 
even for images, title= overrides alt= in IE.

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Professor, Biological Sciences                   +1 909 869 4062
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