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From: Webb, KerryA
Date: Thu, Nov 25 2010 8:03PM
Subject: Tooltips
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I know that IE7 displays ALT text as a tooltip. What about later versions of IE?

And, can you as a user increase the size of the text in a tooltip display?

Thanks

Kerry
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Kerry Webb
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InTACT, ACT Government

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Fri, Nov 26 2010 12:24AM
Subject: Re: Tooltips
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On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Webb, KerryA < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> I know that IE7 displays ALT text as a tooltip.  What about later versions of IE?

IE8 stopped doing this when displaying documents in IE8 mode.

> And, can you as a user increase the size of the text in a tooltip display?

Yes, the Appearance control panel lets you customize tooltips.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis