294417 - The ALT Attribute does not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 25537

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Adiv Ohayon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

In internet explorer, when the ALT attribute is implemented into the 'img' tag,
and you point the mouse over that image, the text in the ALT attribute appears.
Firefox does not support this yet. It would be good if they did.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to any site with the Alt Attribute such as google
2.Hover the mouse of the image
3.Wait for the tag to appear(but it doesn't)

Actual Results:  
Tag does not appear

Expected Results:  
Have the Alt attribute appear on mouseover

Comment 1

[Anders Conbere]

IE improperly displays the ALT tag.  The true tag should be "title=" for mouse
overs.

Comment 2

[Sunil Garg]

Firefox is following spec with this intended behavior.

See http://www.gadgetopia.com/2004/11/09/FirefoxALTTagsAndTooltips.html for some
more details. It's the first google result; I'm sure you could find a more
detailed explanation somewhere else.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25537 ***