Putting mouse of a word and it says something... Err... Something

[Darkness]

Yeah... Does anyone know how to make that info box come up when you put the mouse over an image, text, etc.? I don't quite know how to explain it, but, uh, click Back, and put your cursor over a topic title. A think will come up saying when the topic was created or whatever. How do you do that? Or is that not HTML?

[Anders Moen]

Do you mean this?

<img src="url_for_image" alt="This text will appear when you take your mouse over the image" />

[Darkness]

Most likely is, but, dosen't seem to be working...

[pulpfiction]

What you are looking for is "Tooltip". and alt="some text" will work for images... if you need complex tooltips. this might helphttp://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm

[Darkness]

Thanks.Anyways, found out that the other one dosen't work with Firefox. But oh well. =P Dosen't matter. Thanks.

[dennylin93]

The alt attribute wasn't made to make text show up on an image when you put your mouse over it. It is supposed to show up when the browser is unable to access an image. Internet Explorer doesn't use it properly, but Firefox does. If you want to make text show up while your mouse is over it, you can use "title":

<img src="where your file is" alt="text here" title="text here" width="width of image" height="height of image" />

If you want stuff to show up while your mouse is over text, you can use:

<a href="hyperlink (optional)" title="text here">text here</a>

Delete the "href" part if you're not using a hyperlink.

[Darkness]

I see. Thanks. But, is there a way to make it so it can show the thing that comes up have line breaks?

[jlhaslip]

http://www.jlhaslip.trap17.com/tooltips/tooltips.html

[Anders Moen]

Most likely is, but, dosen't seem to be working...

That's because you need to hold your mouse over it 'till it comes.And if you want a linebreak you can just push enter and continue your text. I don't know if this works in all browsers, though