Line break in alt tag
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Topic: Line break in alt tag
Posted By: Amateur
Subject: Line break in alt tag
Date Posted: 20 July 2005 at 4:44am
| How do I put a line break into an images ALT tag? |
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 20 July 2005 at 5:36am
I dont think it is possible but I dont know for sure. 
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 20 July 2005 at 10:56am
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I think huwnet's right. Yould do something similar to the alt tag with javascript and have line breaks but you'd still need the alt tag for the page validate. don't know ehat that would look like. ------------- 
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Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 20 July 2005 at 11:27am
| Alright thanks. If anyone comes accross a way of doing such they might post it please. |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 20 July 2005 at 4:51pm
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As said, there is no way to put markup into an alt tag but you can like dpyers mentions use JS instead of the alt tag like here: http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/imagetooltip.htm - http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/imagetooltip.htm ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 20 July 2005 at 5:52pm
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Cheers michael.
One question - will adding alot of text to an alt tag slow down rendering?
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 20 July 2005 at 6:19pm
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It's javascript so it's always slow when it executes. Shouldn't impact page redering unless you're doing something onload. Some of the javascripts for this type of thing also allow images. You'd probably want to preload them before the page renders which might slow things down some. A search engine will look at alt image text and toss a few points your way if it's got content related stuff in it. Don't beleve they do the same for text in javascript though. -------------
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Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 20 July 2005 at 6:27pm
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You can actually break TITLE not sure about ALTs but it's probably the same, check the picture on this mod I done:
http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=11975 - http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=11975 I'm using TITLE to display a tooltip, and use (vbCrLf) for the breaks:
NOTE: This works great in IE but not in Firefox. ------------- :: http://www.mylittlehost.com/ - www.mylittlehost.com |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 21 July 2005 at 6:47am
| Cheers lads, will take everything ye said on board. |