I'd like to know if it's possible to force a newline to show in the tooltip when using title property of a TD. something like
<td title="lineone \n linetwo \n etc...">
Can this be done?
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A:
This should be ok, but is IE specific:
<td title="lineone
linetwo
etc...">
As others have mentioned, the only other way is to use and HTML + JavaScript based tooltip if your only interested in the tooltip. If this is for accessibility then you will probably need to stick to just single lines for consistancy.
Ady
2008-10-29 11:16:34
I can confirm that this doesn't work. Thanks
2008-10-29 11:18:30
In what context?
Ady
2008-10-29 11:19:43
sorry, i realise that my question wasn't very descriptive of the solution i was looking for...I'm looking for a way for newlines to show up on the tooltip, i tried this and it doesn't work in IE or firefox.
2008-10-29 11:22:23
Appologies, this should work OK for internet explorer, however I just checked with FireFox, and it looks like the line breaks are ignored.
Ady
2008-10-29 11:24:11
Apologies again, as it does indeed work in IE, but not firefox
2008-10-29 11:25:32
+1
A:
If you're looking to put line breaks into the tooltip that appears on mouseover, there's no reliable crossbrowser way to do that. You'd have to fall back to one of the many Javascript tooltip code samples
Gareth
2008-10-29 11:19:51
A:
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 W3C Recommendation say
« All line breaks MUST have been normalized on input to #xA as described in 2.11 End-of-Line Handling, so the rest of this algorithm operates on text normalized in this way. »
The link is http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#AVNormalize
Then you can write :
<td title="lineone 
 linetwo 
 etc...">
harobed
2010-07-23 08:15:40