How to prevent a link's alt text from disappearing

Question

Is it possible to prevent the text popup that happens when you mouseover a link from disappearing after a certain amount of time. I don't wish to create a completely different text popup solution and would only like to have to pass another attribute into the anchor tag or find out if this is browser controlled.

Answer 1

Nope, this is entirely browser controlled and ranges from browser to browser. The only way to circumvent this would be enlarging the area of the link using padding or a similar technique, thus delaying the "mouseout" event, but this is almost always impractical in a real world layout.

You would have to use an entirely custom solution to control the timeout.

Answer 2

Unfortunately this is controlled by the browser and can't be changed. You could look at using something like the jQuery Tooltip Plugin instead, or jQuery Tools which has a nice example of imitating browsers default tooltip.