Hi Janine,

For the past 45 days I have been trying to figure out how I turned off my Alternate text on my images. The browsers no longer show the text when the image is moused over. I know when this happened but can’t find the fix.

What I did is decided to use an image placeholder on a page. After I inserted this placeholder, the Alt text now only shows when the site is loading on the browser. I need this text to show when a visitor is viewing the site and moves their mouse over the images.

I am sorry to trouble you with this but I am desperate to get this problem fixed. Thank you in advance for any assistance you may give me,

Donna

Hi Donna,

I think your problem is the browser you are using. When you view your site in Internet Explorer and roll your cursor over the image on the front page, the Alt text appears just fine. In Firefox, you don’t see it, but that’s because the browser works differently, not because of your code.

You can use JavaScript to create a little pop-up message with the text so that it would appear in more browsers (unless of course the visitors have pop-ups turned off). You can find the pop-up message feature in the Behaviors panel in Dreamweaver (choose Window > Behaviors to open it, click to select the image, then click the + sign in the Behaviors window and choose Popup Message. Whatever you type into the dialog will appear when someone rolls a cursor over the image in any browser that supports JavaScript.

Hope that helps you solve your problem. I didn’t look at your code, but I like your site and what you’re doing for the arts center.

All my best,
Janine

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