How do I?

[Commander Hughes]

Create a line of text over an image when I glide the mouse over it?

Not sure if I've explained that right, but its the text you see when you
drag the mouse up to the X button in a window or "send" in outlook express
for example.

I want to create this so that microsoft narrator can pick it up. I am
currently using frontpage 2000.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.


James
aka
Commander Hughes

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP]]

Use the title tag.
<img src="whatever" title="This will popup when the mouse is over the
picture">

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

 

[Tina Clarke]

Create a line of text over an image when I glide the mouse over it?

Not sure if I've explained that right, but its the text you see when you
drag the mouse up to the X button in a window or "send" in outlook express
for example.

I want to create this so that microsoft narrator can pick it up. I am
currently using frontpage 2000.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Do you mean a title tag or tool tip?

Small yellow pop-up messages that appear to explain the function of a button
in most windows applications can be made to appear on your website. Using
the 'title' tag. This is designed to be used as explanatory system for
little-known acronyms. For example, the code.

<A title="What You See Is What You Get">WYSIWYG</A>

Or you can use this in conjunction with a hyperlink like so:

<a title="Weekly FrontPage Tips" target="_blank"
href="http://frontpage-tips.com/">FrontPage Tips</a>

The above is the text html way, viewable only in IE.Below are two sites that
tell you how to do it with javascript, viewable to those with JS installed
and enabled though screen readers can't 'see' it.


http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/
http://www.matunuck.com/jwin/

Let me know if this helps

Tina
Tip now out is: THUMBS.DB AND FRONTPAGE
http://frontpage-tips.com/ - FrontPage Tips
They are primarily for FrontPage 2003 but will be good
for earlier versions too.

 

[Murray]

Actually, it's an attribute, not a tag. It's the title attribute....

 

[Andrew Murray]

Do you mean "tool-tips"?

This is done in the Hyperlink dialogue box. Click your image, and create
the link to whereever, in the top of the dialogue there is a field for
"tool-tip text".

OR, I think the alternative method if you're coding by hand <a
href="yoursite.com" alt="this is the tool tip">your link</a>

 

[Murray]

That's wrong. Don't use the alt attribute - use the title attribute. The
alt attribute is only intended to be shown when the browser has image
downloads disabled. IE is the only browser that gets this wrong.

The title attribute is shown by all browsers (although not the same way) and
so is a reliable way of getting short info into the tool-tip.

<a href="foo.html" alt="don't expect me to show" title="I'm always
there">your link</a>