Closed Bug 74376 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

no tooltips from alt tag displayed for images

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

x86
Windows NT
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 25537

People

(Reporter: tmurphy, Assigned: asa)

References

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Details

The following code will not display a tooltip for it's image (supplied by the
alt tag in) where Netscape 4.7 and IE 5.5 do:

<html>
<head>
<title>Testing to see if the tooltips work</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src= "file://C:/image18.gif" height="300" width="200" alt="test1">
</body>
</html>

I noticed this in the images on http://www.bbc.co.uk/ also.

Regards,

Mike Harris

PS. I'm using Tim murphy's email at the moment hence the address
I believe this is INVALID.  Tooltips work only using TITLE= attributes within an
<img SRC=> tag.  See http://people.netscape.com/stephend for an example.  
Alt text should not be displayed as tooltips. See bug 25537 (and many others) 
for the reason why this is invalid. Bug 74241 discusses having a pref for 
displaying Alt tags as a tooltip. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25537 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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