ToolTips in Safari

[Scott Heath]

The Title= attribute in HTML is presented by most browsers as a tooltip.
Mozilla under OSX does fine with this, but Safari seems to ignore it. Am I
missing a preference setting or something?

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[Jerry Kindall]

In article <BB6A6EE3.587D%scott_heath@bonfils.org>, Scott Heath
<scott_heath@bonfils.org> wrote:

> The Title= attribute in HTML is presented by most browsers as a tooltip.
> Mozilla under OSX does fine with this, but Safari seems to ignore it. Am I
> missing a preference setting or something?

It displays it in the browser's status bar. Look down.

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[Tom Harrington]

In article <210820031339565204%jerrykindall@nospam.invalid> ,
Jerry Kindall <jerrykindall@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <BB6A6EE3.587D%scott_heath@bonfils.org>, Scott Heath
> <scott_heath@bonfils.org> wrote:
>

> > The Title= attribute in HTML is presented by most browsers as a tooltip.
> > Mozilla under OSX does fine with this, but Safari seems to ignore it. Am I
> > missing a preference setting or something?

>
> It displays it in the browser's status bar. Look down.

And if you still don't see it, turn on the status bar by using View menu
--> status bar.

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[Scott Heath]

I did have to turn on the status bar, but that only shows the linked url (if
there is one). It doesn't show the 'title=' attribute of my tables. Is
Safari one of those browsers that doesn't display the 'title=' attribute for
some tags (like the <tr> tag)?

On 08/21/2003 2:54 PM, in article tph-F1E602.14541821082003@localhost, "Tom
Harrington" <tph@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote:

> In article <210820031339565204%jerrykindall@nospam.invalid> ,
> Jerry Kindall <jerrykindall@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>

>> In article <BB6A6EE3.587D%scott_heath@bonfils.org>, Scott Heath
>> <scott_heath@bonfils.org> wrote:
>>

>>> The Title= attribute in HTML is presented by most browsers as a tooltip.
>>> Mozilla under OSX does fine with this, but Safari seems to ignore it. Am I
>>> missing a preference setting or something?

>>
>> It displays it in the browser's status bar. Look down.

>
> And if you still don't see it, turn on the status bar by using View menu
> --> status bar.

[Kevin Michael Vail]

In article <BB6B9C34.592B%scott_heath@bonfils.org>,
Scott Heath <scott_heath@bonfils.org> wrote:

>
> On 08/21/2003 2:54 PM, in article tph-F1E602.14541821082003@localhost, "Tom
> Harrington" <tph@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote:
>

> > In article <210820031339565204%jerrykindall@nospam.invalid> ,
> > Jerry Kindall <jerrykindall@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> >

> >> In article <BB6A6EE3.587D%scott_heath@bonfils.org>, Scott Heath
> >> <scott_heath@bonfils.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The Title= attribute in HTML is presented by most browsers as a tooltip.
> >>> Mozilla under OSX does fine with this, but Safari seems to ignore it. Am I
> >>> missing a preference setting or something?
> >>
> >> It displays it in the browser's status bar. Look down.

> >
> > And if you still don't see it, turn on the status bar by using View menu
> > --> status bar.

>
> I did have to turn on the status bar, but that only shows the linked url (if
> there is one). It doesn't show the 'title=' attribute of my tables. Is
> Safari one of those browsers that doesn't display the 'title=' attribute for
> some tags (like the <tr> tag)?

The browser isn't required to do anything with the title attribute, so
you can't count on it showing anywhere.
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