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W. Guy Delaney

On my family web site, I have a page titled Picture Gallery with picture of
family members on it. I would like to put each person's name under his or
her picture to identify that person. Unfortunately, not every member knows
every other member, much less all the children.

Is there a way to hyperlink the name under the picture to a brief
description of the person in the picture. For instance, if the person's name
is John Brown, could someone click on that name to bring up this
information: "John Brown is the son of Courtney and Jim brown. Courtney is
the daughter of Jack and Janet Johnson."

I just want to put enough information to make it possible for those who
don't know who John Brown is to link him back to family members they do
know.
 
<img title="This is my uncle's great aunt, Matilda"...>

You would need to do this manually.
 
For something like this, I wouldn't use the gallery. Create your own using
a table and thumbnails, placing any text above or below the thumb in another
cell.
 
I downloaded Jimco Spawn, but I cannot figure out how to use it. Do I create
a web page, place the message there, and then use Spawn to link to that
page?
 
W. Guy Delaney said:
I downloaded Jimco Spawn, but I cannot figure out how to use it. Do I
create a web page, place the message there, and then use Spawn to
link to that page?
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On the main page (not the popup page), select what you want to be the
hyperlink to the popup window. Open Spawn. Enter all of the information
and click OK.

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Jim Cheshire
JIMCO
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Free add-ins for FrontPage

Author of Special Edition
Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
 
I'm sorry, I just don't get it. Here is what I did. I created a blank page,
put my message on it, highlighted the message, opened Spawn, entered all the
information, clicked OK, tested it, and got an error.

That was the first try. The next try, I highlighted the name of the person
that I wanted to give more information about, open Spawn, entered the
information, clicked OK, tested it, and got an error message.

Where do I put the information I want in the popup box? On a page by itself
or is there somewhere in Spawn where you can type it. Or do you type all of
your messages on a page by themselves, and highlight each message as you
need it? If you do the later, how do you link it to George Jones whose name
is under the picture so that when you click on George Jones, the popup
message that says, "George is the son of Jesse and Kelly Jones."

Sorry.
 
W. Guy Delaney said:
I'm sorry, I just don't get it. Here is what I did. I created a
blank page, put my message on it, highlighted the message, opened
Spawn, entered all the information, clicked OK, tested it, and got an
error.
That was the first try. The next try, I highlighted the name of the
person that I wanted to give more information about, open Spawn,
entered the information, clicked OK, tested it, and got an error
message.
Where do I put the information I want in the popup box? On a page by
itself or is there somewhere in Spawn where you can type it. Or do
you type all of your messages on a page by themselves, and highlight
each message as you need it? If you do the later, how do you link it
to George Jones whose name is under the picture so that when you
click on George Jones, the popup message that says, "George is the
son of Jesse and Kelly Jones."
Sorry.
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Spawn creates JavaScript that will pop up a window and display the URL that
you specify. It seems to me like that's not really what you're looking for.
I think what you want is the Alt Text for an image.

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Jim Cheshire
JIMCO
http://www.jimcoaddins.com
Free add-ins for FrontPage

Author of Special Edition
Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
 
Probably not that either, since only IE displays that. Make it the title
attribute, and I'd buy it.
 
Hi Jim your Web Site is down this is what I get:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You are not authorized to view this page
You might not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you
supplied.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page, please try to contact the Web
site by using any e-mail address or phone number that may be listed on the www.jimcoaddins.com
home page.

You can click Search to look for information on the Internet.




HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden
Internet Explorer
 
DI said:
Hi Jim your Web Site is down this is what I get:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You are not authorized to view this page
You might not have permission to view this directory or page using
the credentials you supplied.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page,
please try to contact the Web site by using any e-mail address or
phone number that may be listed on the www.jimcoaddins.com home page.

You can click Search to look for information on the Internet.
Click to expand...

Thanks, Di! I don't know what my host is up to. Fortunately, I keep
back-ups of all of my Web sites. :)

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Jim Cheshire
JIMCO
http://www.jimcoaddins.com
Free add-ins for FrontPage

Author of Special Edition
Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
 
Yes - and that says that the alt text is only shown when the image is not.
Try going to a page with only alt attributes on images in Mozilla or any
other browser than IE. It's not shown. The title tag is shown.

"most of these browsers will display the description you gave instead of the
images " The operative phrase is "instead of the images". The alt
attribute is NOT supposed to be displayed as a generic tool-tip. IE gets
this wrong.
 
Murray said:
Yes - and that says that the alt text is only shown when the image is
not. Try going to a page with only alt attributes on images in
Mozilla or any other browser than IE. It's not shown. The title tag
is shown.
"most of these browsers will display the description you gave instead
of the images " The operative phrase is "instead of the images". The alt
attribute is NOT supposed to be displayed as a generic
tool-tip. IE gets this wrong.
Click to expand...

Like I said, I might want to do some more research on the issue. ;)

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Jim Cheshire
JIMCO
http://www.jimcoaddins.com
Free add-ins for FrontPage

Author of Special Edition
Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
 
Further to this, Jim, you may find this illuminating -

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#adef-alt

Attribute definitions

alt = text [CS]
For user agents that cannot display images, forms, or applets, this
attribute specifies alternate text. The language of the alternate text is
specified by the lang attribute.

and then also on that page, this -

7.4.3 The title attribute
Attribute definitions

title = text [CS]
This attribute offers advisory information about the element for which it
is set.
Unlike the TITLE element, which provides information about an entire
document and may only appear once, the title attribute may annotate any
number of elements. Please consult an element's definition to verify that it
supports this attribute.

Values of the title attribute may be rendered by user agents in a variety of
ways. For instance, visual browsers frequently display the title as a "tool
tip" (a short message that appears when the pointing device pauses over an
object). Audio user agents may speak the title information in a similar
context. For example, setting the attribute on a link allows user agents
(visual and non-visual) to tell users about the nature of the linked
resource:

....some text...
Here's a photo of
<A href="http://someplace.com/neatstuff.gif" title="Me scuba diving">
me scuba diving last summer
</A>
....some more text...
The title attribute has an additional role when used with the LINK element
to designate an external style sheet. Please consult the section on links
and style sheets for details.

Note. To improve the quality of speech synthesis for cases handled poorly by
standard techniques, future versions of HTML may include an attribute for
encoding phonemic and prosodic information


So - to be fair, there is no requirement that the title attribute be
displayed. But there is a requirement that the alt attribute only display
when the image is not displayed for whatever reason.
 

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