I am working in Dreamweaver 8.

I have Alt Text that appears on mouse-over.

The text that appears stays visible for about 5 seconds and then disappears (which I believe is standard).

I need to know how to extend the time that the Alt text is visible.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Charles

I don't believe you can, it a browser generated object.

You could try finding a javascript example that will generate a floating container next to the cursor on a mouseover, and I've seen some javascripts that can make it look identical to IE alt titles.

You'll have to search to find one you like, but here is a location I know of: www.hotscripts.com

I have to agree. The alt attribute display is controlled by the browser. In fact the default for Firefox is not to show it at all. I think you'll need some javascript to code that functionality yourself just as mgraphic said.

I don't believe this is possible.

However if it is something important, you might want to use a hyperlink to display the content is a tiny window. The Alt might say "Click for more info".

Call me crazy but that is what I would do.

As Van Gogh mentions, Alt won't appear in FF nor in NS, so you might want to add a duplicate Title tag so the tip will display in these browsers.

People need to make sure they use the correct term for tags/elements and attributes, since there's an attribute and an element that have the same name, but don't have the same effects.

I feel you're using the alt attribute incorrectly and not for what it's meant to be used for, so I suggest using either javascript or CSS to do this, which both are capable of doing. There's so many names this goes under, I've known them to be called tooltips, which might help when searching for ways to do this.

Cheers,

MC

I also think that It's inside browser, but....
Why don't You try with some kind of tooltip?

google DHTML tooltip or javascript tooltip and You would surely find solution

You'll find this tutorial helpful for making pure CSS popups - otherwise known as 'tooltips': http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html

The Alt attribute is not meant to be a tooltip and should not be used as such. As noted, IE displays the alt text by default, other browsers do not. Alt text should describe the image so that if someone has images turned off, or is using a screen reader, they will know what that image represents. If the image is just fluff, then leave the alt atribute blank : alt="".

Just out of curiousity, what are you trying to achive with it? There may be a better way altogether.

A mouse over, something like that is done here;
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_sear...&userID=863040

That's no alt or title tag. It is javascript. Here is what they used:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/...agetrail.shtml

Thank you for your reply.

The page that you referred shows code to have a Gif in place of a cursor that just follows the mouse around.

I need to have code that will show an image/text when the mouse rolls over a
"Hotspot", or even when the Hotspot is clicked.

Thanks again,
Charles

You would have to implement one for each. That's pretty easy if your info is pulling from a database, but quite a pain if you have to hard code it.

Yes, since I am very new to writing code I am finding it very difficult to achieve.

I am developing a web site named; Journey Into Heaven

This is a Not-For-Profit domain so I am trying to limit expenditures.

That is one of the main reasons that I joined this Forum.

I was hoping that I could get some folks here to help me write some code.

While some of the folks here are very nice, well meaning and quite expert in these matters, I am not getting very much significant help at all.

Although I try to be as specific as I can, I am finding that my requests are mostly being deflected with conflicting questions, referrals to complicated & confusing examples and/or tutorials.

One example of this is here;
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/asp-fo...ding-form.html

I am very exasperated at this point, so much so that I am now considering hiring a professional to do the coding that I need to have for my domain.

With this in mind, can anyone help me by writing the code that I need, and if not, can anyone here refer me to someone that I can hire to do it?


All significant help will be very much appreciated.


Charles