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RE: CSS background image Alt Text

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From: Michael Goddard
Date: Jun 27, 2003 6:41AM

I believe that it is NOT possible to input an alt attribute to a background
image since it becomes part of the document and not a separate entity or
object. You CAN however input a title attribute within the div tag which
will pop up a balloon upon hold the cursor over the div layer.

<div id="welcome" title="Welcome to dogstar">welcome to dogstar</div>

Hope this helps. I personally do not know if you can control this via CSS
though.

Michael