[Pmwiki-users] Title attribute

[Nathan Jones]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>  1.  Use .../image.gif"descriptive text" to specify just the alt= attribute.
>  2.  Use .../image.gif"descriptive text" to specify both alt= and title=
>      attributes.
>  3.  Come up with another markup to allow the title= attribute to be
>      specified in an image.

I'm not fond of making both alt and title out of the same text - not much
point. Besides, if your aim is to provide text in a tooltip, many
browsers already display alt text in a tooltip.

If titles are deemed important, two options spring to mind. (One markup,
two interpretations.)

[[image.png"alt text" --title text]]
[[DNS --Domain Name System]]

First interpretation: make links with no targets:

<a title="title text"><img src="image.png"></a>
<a title="DOmain Name System">DNS</a>

Second interpretation: lack of target means it's not realy a link, so
render it differently:

<img src="image.png" title="title text">
<span title="Domain Name System">DNS</span> -or-
<abbr title="Domain Name System">DNS</abbr>

-- 
Nathan Jones