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fkay, I feel silly asking this because I'm sure there's a really easy answer
that I'm overlooking.

When the cursor hovers over a button on my published page, the text of the
button pops up next to the cursor in an annoying little box. I'm sure I can
turn this off or have the box blank and therefore invisible, but I'll be
damned if I can figure out how.
 
To clarify: my goal is to disable this feature BEFORE I publish so no one has
to worry about changing his or her browser to get rid of the text. I'm using
FP 2003 and the buttons are being generated by that program. In other words,
they're not just gifs or jpgs that I've imported from a drawing program, so I
have to put some text in. My goal is to have that text appear just in the
box and not also at the tail end of the cursor.
 
In Internet Explorer
Tools->Internet Options->Advanced tag
Clear the box "Always expand alt tags for images"

Other browsers will only display alternative (alt) text when the image
is missing, unless the user deliberately sets this to show.

Alternative text is a requirement for those browsers that do not display
images, whether because the browser is text only, or the user has
switched them off. Switching off alt text is a per user setting.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
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FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
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That's a local fix.

The right way to do it would be to include this attribute -

title="" (an empty title attribute)

in the tag, e.g.,

<img title=""...

That will prevent any alt text from being (erroneously) displayed by IE
(only), since IE is the only browser that does this. And it will work for
everyone, not just you.
 
Thanks. I knew it had to be something simple.

Murray said:
That's a local fix.

The right way to do it would be to include this attribute -

title="" (an empty title attribute)

in the tag, e.g.,

<img title=""...

That will prevent any alt text from being (erroneously) displayed by IE
(only), since IE is the only browser that does this. And it will work for
everyone, not just you.
Click to expand...
 
So now anyone with a browser that cannot display images can no longer
have any means of knowing what that image is about....
Inserting an empty title="" attribute is a much better solution - and
works in all browsers (except Netscape 4 and earlier).
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
 
8)

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Murray
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MVP FrontPage


Ronx said:
So now anyone with a browser that cannot display images can no longer have
any means of knowing what that image is about....
Inserting an empty title="" attribute is a much better solution - and
works in all browsers (except Netscape 4 and earlier).
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
Click to expand...
 
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