Line break in title attribute of span

Question

I've got a span that I'm using as a tooltip for a checkbox on a web page, and I want there to be a line break in the tooltip. None of the following have worked:

<span title='This<br />is a tooltip'></span>

<span title='This 
is a tooltip'></span>

document.getElementById('mySpan').setAttribute('title', 'this\nis a tooltip');

Is this even possible?

Duplicate:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/358874/how-can-i-use-a-carriage-return-in-a-html-tooltip
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246438/newline-in-td-title

Answer 1

discussed here - suggest use JS based tooltips instead