Screentips in FireFox?

[Ollie T]

I am using FrontPage to design my site. I have mouse-over screen tips on
images. They work just fine in Internet Explorer but do not show up when
browsing with FireFox. Is there a trick to get them to work with FireFox?
Thanks for any help.

 

[Ronx]

mouseover screen tips in the form
<img src="blah.gif" title="screen tip"> will work in any graphical
browser except NN4 and earlier.
mouseover screen tips in the form
<img src="blah.gif" alt="screen tip"> will only work (by default) in
Internet Explorer. Alt text is used to replace an image when the
image cannot be displayed.
<img src="blah.gif" title="screen tip" alt="screen tip"> will work in
any browser.

If you _are using the title attribute, please give a link to a page
showing the fault.

 

[Ollie T]

mouseover screen tips in the form

<img src="blah.gif" title="screen tip"> will work in any graphical
browser except NN4 and earlier.
mouseover screen tips in the form
<img src="blah.gif" alt="screen tip"> will only work (by default) in
Internet Explorer. Alt text is used to replace an image when the image
cannot be displayed.
<img src="blah.gif" title="screen tip" alt="screen tip"> will work in any
browser.

If you _are using the title attribute, please give a link to a page
showing the fault.
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Do I need to add these codes into the HTML portion of FrontPage? I am just
using the "ScreenTip" button in the Edit Hyperlink box as I have a mapped
image. Is there a way to do it from there? Thanks.

 

[Murray]

That'll work fine. It inserts a title attribute.

 

[Ollie T]

That'll work fine. It inserts a title attribute.

I am sorry but I am still a bit confused. I have a large mapped image.
Each mapped section also contains a hyperlink. From the hyperlink edit box
I can insert the screentip just by simply typing it in the box. Works in IE
but not FireFox. Ok, here is the code that ends up generated for one of the
mapped images:

<br>
<map name="FPMap0">
<area alt="My Screentip" coords="0, 1, 19, 9" shape="rect"
href="http://www.mylink.com">
</map>
<img border="0" src="Images/largemappedimage.gif" usemap="#FPMap0"
width="803" height="1003"><br>
<br>

So will I need to go in and alter the HTML to get this to work every time?
Or is there a simple command I can type into the screentips hyperlink box
when putting in the screentip the first time. Thanks for all the help guys.

 

[Murray]

<area alt="My Screentip" coords="0, 1, 19, 9" shape="rect"

Your method is inserting an alt attribute, not a title attribute. As has
been said, the alt attribute is only displayed by IE, not by any other
browser *unless* graphics have been turned off.

Curiously, the button for a hotspot is also called "Screen Tip" but in this
case, the alt tag is inserted. That's ever so strange. Looks like you will
have to enter these puppies manually.

Change this -

<area href="...

to this -

<area title="whatever you want onscreen" href="....

How many do you have to do?

 

[Ollie T]

<area alt="My Screentip" coords="0, 1, 19, 9" shape="rect"

Your method is inserting an alt attribute, not a title attribute. As has
been said, the alt attribute is only displayed by IE, not by any other
browser *unless* graphics have been turned off.

Curiously, the button for a hotspot is also called "Screen Tip" but in
this case, the alt tag is inserted. That's ever so strange. Looks like
you will have to enter these puppies manually.

Change this -

<area href="...

to this -

<area title="whatever you want onscreen" href="....

How many do you have to do?

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Ok. Changing <area alt= to <area title= did the trick. It will just be
a pain in the future when I have to deal with a lot of them in HTML. How
many do I have? Well right now I was just testing one. My total image is
roughly 800x1000. The image will be a sort of collage of many, many
different small images. Each will be mapped and have a screen tip and link.
I may end up having 2000-3000+. Thanks for the help.

 

[terry]

If you are using FrontPage 2003 just add the <area title="Whatever" to your
code snippets...
Might save a little time???

T
|
| > <area alt="My Screentip" coords="0, 1, 19, 9" shape="rect"
| >
| > Your method is inserting an alt attribute, not a title attribute. As
has
| > been said, the alt attribute is only displayed by IE, not by any other
| > browser *unless* graphics have been turned off.
| >
| > Curiously, the button for a hotspot is also called "Screen Tip" but in
| > this case, the alt tag is inserted. That's ever so strange. Looks like
| > you will have to enter these puppies manually.
| >
| > Change this -
| >
| > <area href="...
| >
| > to this -
| >
| > <area title="whatever you want onscreen" href="....
| >
| > How many do you have to do?
| >
| > --
| Ok. Changing <area alt= to <area title= did the trick. It will just
be
| a pain in the future when I have to deal with a lot of them in HTML. How
| many do I have? Well right now I was just testing one. My total image is
| roughly 800x1000. The image will be a sort of collage of many, many
| different small images. Each will be mapped and have a screen tip and
link.
| I may end up having 2000-3000+. Thanks for the help.
|
|

 

[Ollie T]

If you are using FrontPage 2003 just add the <area title="Whatever" to your

code snippets...
Might save a little time???

Yes, going in the HTML code and changing it to read <area title worked. I
just wish there was a way to do it from the screentips box in the hyperlink
box.

 

[Murray]

roughly 800x1000

I may end up having 2000-3000

I'd do it with the alt attribute, and then just do a find and replace of
"alt=" with "title=".