IE5.0 supports an attribute in for the A and IMG tags named title. The TITLE attribute in a tag will create a small box containing text, often call a tool tip, over an image or a link when the user hovers her mouse over that element. If present, the TITLE attribute will replace the ALT attribute for the IMG tag. If the TITLE is not present, the ALT will be used to represent a broken image.
The title attribute is part of the HTML 4.01 specification, but is often thought of as being proprietarty to IE. As far as I know, TITLE is not used by any search engines, so one should use the ALT attribute in the IMG tag even if using the TITLE attribute. For more on the TITLE attribute in the IMG tag, go to Things NN Won't Do, Page 5 - The Title Attribute.
Below is the code for a link that utilizes the TITLE atttribute.
<a href="nowhere.htm"
title="mouseover me please">here is a link</a>
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The MARQUEE tag is probably the most hated tag on the web. If there's one thing would-be designers are told, not taught, but told not to do, it's use the MARQUEE tag.
If you're a Netscape user, you probably have no idea that the MARQUEE tag exists. It's a neat little tag that Microsoft developed years ago to animate text. Anything between the tags crawls across the page. Netscape doesn't support it because it is not part of any HTML definition. It's a tag that Microsoft created and as far as I know only Microsoft browsers will display it.
Netscape will display the text in the MARQUEE tag, it just will not animate it. Carefully using the tag will keep the tag's content cross-browser compatible. The tag is often used with abandon; text simply crawls across the page from one margin to another. If a writer places the MARQUEE tags in a table cell, she can get the animation effect for Explorer users and just the content for Netscape users, and in both cases format the text on the page.
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