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Old February 7th, 2005, 06:21 AM
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Default alt
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<td><img src="images/icon7.gif" alt="Information"></td>
</tr>

whats the alt for?

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Old February 7th, 2005, 06:40 AM
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Hi Picco,

A search of the w3c site for "alt attribute" returns a link to this page, which covers it pretty well...
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/altAttribute

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Alternate text. Text to be displayed when the image cannot be displayed. It's not meant for a tooltip in addition to the image even if some browsers persist in using it that way. That's what 'title' is for.

Alt is required for images but can also be used with a few other elements.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/....html#adef-alt

Good places to start when looking something up in the spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/attributes.html
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Sorry, Chris. The page hadn't updated. Oh well. The more the merrier! :D

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No problem Meow - done exactly the same thing many times myself ;)
 
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