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Re: Using title attribute on non-anchor elements?

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From: Detlev Fischer
Date: May 3, 2016 4:51AM

Points taken! When I said "only displays tooltip if title is on links" I didn't mean to imply that it would not display on other focusable elements - just that it does not seem to work if title is put on an img element within a link. Looks like it generally works when title is directly placed on focusable elements (incl. span with tabindex=0).
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Patrick H. Lauke schrieb am 03.05.2016 10:13:

> On 03/05/2016 08:40, Detlev Fischer wrote:
>> Weird - IE11 (11.0.9600.17842) does display title, but only on links
>> (incl. linked images)
>
> I briefly tested it for links, for <span tabindex="0"> items, and for an
> <input type="text">, and in all cases it displayed.
>
>> There is an offset of about a second before it appears which means
>> you can easily miss it when tabbing through several links. The
>> 'tooltip' does not scale along with browser zoom. And it only lasts
>> for about 5 secs and then fades. Oh, and in some cases (depending on
>> the position of the element and the page's scroll state), it is
>> actually displayed outside the browser window far below the element -
>> I guess this is a bug. I have checked this on an alt and title test
>> page that I have put together recently:
>> http://www.3needs.org/en/testing/code/alt+title-test.html
>
> Note that all those characteristics (the 1 second delay, the fact it
> doesn't scale with browser zoom, etc) are just as true for mouse users.
> i.e. this tooltip is the IE11/Edge standard tooltip.
>
> With regards to not changing size relative to browser zoom: arguably the
> tooltip is part of the browser UI, so I can understand why it would take
> its sizing not from the current page content, but from the UI font size.
>
> P
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