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Re: IMG with a caption?

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From: Webmaster
Date: Mar 5, 2005 12:47AM

Thanks Joelle! Great article. As for the ALT, it also shows the short
text for the sighted readers when the pointer is over an image. I know
it works on IE, but on Firefox ALT does not show anything.

So I add TITLE. For example <img src="someimage.png" ALT="some image
short description" TITLE="some image short description"> Then the
description appears both on IE and Firefox. I do not know if it is right
or wrong way to do it (any idea?), but at least the text appears on both
IE and Firefox.

brgds A.

Joelle Tegwen wrote:
> I like to use a for this with the image in the dt and the caption in
> the dd.
>
> I got the idea from:
> http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/index.cfm
> YMMV (Your mileage my vary)
>
> Joelle
>
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