Alt tag problem

[jeanm]

I've put alt tags on all my images but when the mouse is hovered over the image in IE I don't see any text. The reference is: http://www.heritageceilings.com.au/index.php
Could someone help me please?

 

[d a v e]

alt ATTRIBUTES are only seen when the image is missing. (except in old version of IE that mistakenly display it)

you just need to add the title attribute to the image

<img class="jeans-photo" src="../../images-general/jean-morrison-head.jpg" alt="Pressed metal ceilings sold by Jean Morrison" title="Pressed metal ceilings sold by Jean Morrison" />

 

[jeanm]

Thank you very much Dave.

 

[d a v e]

you're welcome

 

[jeanm]

Dave this is weird. Look at this site on IE and the picture titles come up even when I haven't got Titles in the code. Now I'm really puzzled

 

[d a v e]

what version of ie? older version mistakenly display the alt attributes

 

[d a v e]

yeah for me versions 7 and below of IE show the alt attributes - it took them until version 8 of IE to correct their mistake. just put the title attributes in and your set to go

 

[jeanm]

I've just checked mine and it is version 9. So it is displaying two of my sites differently even in the same IE version. Strange?

At least I know how to fix the problem now.

 

[d a v e]

maybe you have ie9 in compatibility mode?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie-9/features/compatibility-view

 

[jeanm]

You are spot on Dave. I didn't know anything about compatibility mode till then. So much to learn, so much to learn.......

 

[d a v e]

i know what i know pretty well but there plenty of related things i'm ignorant or unsure of
being able to ask on forums is great - it's like having a big team of designers and developers you can tap for knowledge

 

[jeanm]

In Dreamweaver CS5 there doesn't seem to be an area for me to code in titles for images. Seems it would always need to be done manually. Wonder why it is this way?

 

[rahmanpaidar]

use alt as well as title. some browser displays popup some does not.
What browser you are using?

 

[jeanm]

Hi rahmanpaidar. I've got all the alt tags in there but now I'll have to manually go through all three of my web sites to input the title for each image. I don't know why they don't have it in Dreamweaver just like you input the alt tag.

 

[rahmanpaidar]

Hi rahmanpaidar. I've got all the alt tags in there but now I'll have to manually go through all three of my web sites to input the title for each image. I don't know why they don't have it in Dreamweaver just like you input the alt tag.

If have not noticed this problem in Dreamweaver since I write usually HTML codes manually. It is much simpler for me than using Html editor. Html Editors often mess up the codes and stuff redundant code with unnecessary codes and in some cases they destroy your code.

 

[d a v e]

if you select the image in design view (click it ) in DW then press ctrl+t to bring up the quick tag editor then type in the

title="text here"

bit

 

[computerGeek]

is the title attribute really necessary..?