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popup text when the pointer is on some text Orloff 07-30-2005
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Posted by Orloff on July 30, 2005, 10:33 am
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Hi,
on most (all?) browsers, when you put the pointer on a
<a href="..." title="popup text">this is a link</a>
without clicking on the link, there is a popup caption with the "popup
text".

I would like to achieve the same with some text that is not a link.
I realized that I could simply make it
<a title="popup text">this is just some text</a>

My question: is it the best way to achieve what I want?
Are there alternative ways?
Is it portable?

Thank you!

Posted by Arne on July 30, 2005, 10:52 am
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Once upon a time *Orloff* wrote:
> Hi,
> on most (all?) browsers, when you put the pointer on a
> <a href="..." title="popup text">this is a link</a>
> without clicking on the link, there is a popup caption with the "popup
> text".
>
> I would like to achieve the same with some text that is not a link.
> I realized that I could simply make it
> <a title="popup text">this is just some text</a>
>
> My question: is it the best way to achieve what I want?
> Are there alternative ways?
> Is it portable?
>
> Thank you!

Yes, it's the best way. However, if you like to add longer text that
wraps into several lines within the tooltip box, you need to use
Javascript (DHTML) like the examples shows here:

http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm

Of course, it will not work if the browser don't support Javascript
(have Javascript disabled)

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Posted by Orloff on July 30, 2005, 6:25 am
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Arne wrote:

> Once upon a time *Orloff* wrote:
>> Hi,
>> on most (all?) browsers, when you put the pointer on a
>> <a href="..." title="popup text">this is a link</a>
>> without clicking on the link, there is a popup caption with the "popup
>> text".
>>
>> I would like to achieve the same with some text that is not a link.
>> I realized that I could simply make it
>> <a title="popup text">this is just some text</a>
>>
>> My question: is it the best way to achieve what I want?
>> Are there alternative ways?
>> Is it portable?
>>
>> Thank you!
>
> Yes, it's the best way. However, if you like to add longer text that
> wraps into several lines within the tooltip box, you need to use
> Javascript (DHTML) like the examples shows here:
>
> http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm
>
> Of course, it will not work if the browser don't support Javascript
> (have Javascript disabled)
>

Thanks Arne.

Posted by David Dorward on July 30, 2005, 12:45 pm
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Orloff wrote:

> <a title="popup text">this is just some text</a>

> My question: is it the best way to achieve what I want?

No. Anchors should be links or link targets.

> Are there alternative ways?

Use a more suitable element. What that is depends on what the text is (e.g.
expansion of an abbreviation, a definition, etc), and could be abbr, dfn,
span, or something else.

> Is it portable?

To some degree. Advisory text (which is what the title attribute holds)
shouldn't be essential reading though.

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Posted by Andy Dingley on July 30, 2005, 3:41 pm
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><a title="popup text">this is just some text</a>
>
>My question: is it the best way to achieve what I want?
>Are there alternative ways?

Just use the title attribute and put it on any element you wish - you
don't need to add spurious <a> elements.

It'll generally work, for most elements, most of the time.

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