Question about ALT tags

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Steve

Is there a way to control the amount of time an ALT message is
displayed. I have some photos with a short description but text only
appears for a few seconds then goes away. I would like to keep the
text box open until the mouse is moved away from the image.
 
The alt tag is meant for use by screen readers or when images are not
displaying. It isn't meant as a 'tooltip' or mouseover notice. Some of the
newer browsers won't display them at all if the image loads (Mozilla and
Netscape 7 for example). You can try using the title attribute as follows:

<img scr="image.jpg" height="" width="" alt="description" title="more
description or image title">

You should still put an alt tag in but the text can be different for the two
attributes and both are indexed by most search engines so you can help your
site do a bit better by using good by separte descriptions.
 
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