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Make your site user-friendly by using pop-up "tool tips" to help them navigate, or to give them essential information.
TITLE: Tool-tip pop-ups? Use "title=" in your tags
AUTHOR: Dianne Reuby
CONTACT: admin.firstwebbuilder.co.uk
COPYRIGHT: ©2002 by Dianne Reuby. All rights reserved
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Tool-tip pop-ups? Use "title=" in your tags
by Dianne Reuby
If you've created web pages, you've probably used the ALT as
part of your IMG tag. When your visitor puts their cursor
over the image, a pop-up "tool-tip" gives them essential
information.
You can get exactly the same effect on other web objects,
using "title".
Here are some examples.
a target="_blank" href="news.html" title="Click on this link to get the
latest local and national news, weather, and traffic
information">News
table border="0" title="Choose a category for information
on stock levels, availability, and suppliers"
ul title="Click on a topic to get full details of the
services and resources that we provide to all our members,
affiliates and associates"
These "tool-tips" can give valuable help to your visitors,
and make your page look neater - you don't need to have long
explanations on display. By including them in a title tag,
your visitors will see them when they need them.
They'll work in Internet Explorer version 4 onwards.
Netscape version 4 and later should show them correctly, but
I haven't been able to test all versions.
Happy site building!
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Dianne Reuby is co-author of the e-book "First Website
Builder". Dianne created and runs the First Web Builder
site, dedicated to providing ebooks and tips for new
webmasters.
Visit FWB at http://firstwebbuilder.co.uk/
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